Yearning

Race, gender, and cultural politics

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Yearning

Race, gender, and cultural politics

1st ed edition
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"For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination"--

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Between-the-Lines
Language
English
Pages
236

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2005, Jump at the Sun
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Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics
1990, South End Press
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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
November 1990, South End Press
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Yearning: Race, gender, and cultural politics
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"Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun was recently made into a film and shown to a mass audience on the PBS series American Playhouse."

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Paperback
Number of pages
236

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OL8354386M
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0921284357
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Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun was recently made into a film and shown to a mass audience on the PBS series American Playhouse.
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