Yearning
Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
About this book
"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"--
Subjects
- african americans
- african americans, intellectual life
- african americans, race identity
- african americans, social conditions
- african american studies
- african american women
- afro-americans
- conditions sociales
- cultural policy
- discrimination & race relations
- ethnic studies
- feminism
- féminisme
- feminism & feminist theory
- fiction
- gender identity
- human skin color
- identité ethnique
- identity
- identity (philosophical concept)
- identity politics
- identity (psychology)
- intellectual life
- juvenile fiction
- love
- minority studies
- noirs américains
- pictorial works
- political participation
- political science, united states
- politics and culture
- politique et culture
- politique identitaire
- prejudices
- race
- race awareness
- race identity
- race relations
- relations raciales
- rôle selon le sexe
- sex role
- social conditions
- social science
- social science / ethnic studies / african american studies
- social science / feminism & feminist theory
- social science / women's studies
- united states, race relations
- united states, social conditions, 1980-
- vie intellectuelle
- women's studies