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Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

bell hooks

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.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

bell hooks

This book established bell hooks as one of feminism's most vital and influential voices.
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

bell hooks

In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy.
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

bell hooks

In this groundbreaking book, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are -- whatever their age, ethnicity, or cultural persuasion.
How Do You Make a Bubble?

How Do You Make a Bubble?

William H. Hooks

This simple rhyming text poses questions about how to do a variety of things and provides the answers.
Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A ...

Constructing Black Education at Oberlin College: A ...

Roland M. Baumann

Hodge, Sandra Hodge, Virginia Davis Hodges, JamesA. Hoisington, WilliamH. Holley, Sallie Hollinger, David Hollins, Dwight hooks, bell.See Watkins, Gloria ( bell hooks) Hopkins, Fay Johns, Gillian Johns, Vernon Johnson, Allan D. Johnson, ...
The Calvinistic Magazine ...

The Calvinistic Magazine ...

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Generation X Professors Speak: Voices from Academia

Generation X Professors Speak: Voices from Academia

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I use the edition edited by Judith L. Raiskin (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999) for my teaching. 4. . . . with a nod to the originator of this phrase, bell hooks. 5. Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1 15. 6. William Pannapacker, “The Big Lie about the 'Life of  ...
The Agony of Education: Black Students at a White University

The Agony of Education: Black Students at a White University

Joe R. Feagin

Black Students at a White University Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Nikitah Imani. FEHBIH l HERB t llllllll] 33. bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Ratism [New York: Henry Holt. 1995), 263—64. 34. hooks, Killing Rage, 265. 35. See joe R. Feagin,  ...
Explorer Courageous: Edmund Kennedy

Explorer Courageous: Edmund Kennedy

William Beard

Biographical details of Kennedys early life; explorations; p.228-229; Near Tully R., description of native huts, shields, swords, grass fishing lines with hooks attached made from mussel shells; method of cooking; p.235-236; Princess ...
Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer

Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer

Margaret Hooks

A lavishly illustrated portrait of one of the most significant women photographers of the 20th century.
Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon

Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon

Margaret Hooks

A selection of portraits of the legendary Mexican artist
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place

Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place

bell hooks

At once meditative, confessional, and political, this poignant volume draws the reader deep into the experience of living in Appalachia.
The Consumer Society Reader

The Consumer Society Reader

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Included here is much-discussed work by leading critics such as Jean Baudrillard, Susan Bordo, Dick Hebdige, bell hooks, and Janice Radway.
Tina Modotti: photographer and revolutionary

Tina Modotti: photographer and revolutionary

Margaret Hooks

From her beginnings in Italy to Hollywood in the 1920s to post-quake San Francisco, Modotti's life is magnificently portrayed.
Chambers''s Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Chambers''s Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

William Chambers

See Hash. hackly, hak''li, adj. rough and broken, as if hacked or chopped : in min., covered with sharp points. haggle, hag''l, v. f., to hack into small Aieces; to cut unskilfully; to mangle:—for-£. hagg''ling ; £a.A. haggled. [dim. of Scot. hag, Ice. Aogga, to hack.] Hack, a hackney. See under Hackney. Hackle, hak''1, m. an instrument with hooks or iron teeth for sorting hemp or flax : any flimsy substance unspun : a feather in a cock''s neck; a hook and fly for angling, dressed with this feather.
Guatemalan women speak

Guatemalan women speak

Margaret Hooks

Their voices tell aseries of clear 'short stories' on wide array of themes, roughly grouped together under the headings of work, being Indian, family, and resistance"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Arts of Asia

Arts of Asia

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... fact that China Gallery's garment hook has its original gems in places makes the piece even more noteworthy. (by Dr Kimberly Morse Jones) 1 For a comprehensive discussion of the origin and history of garment hooks see Thomas Lawton.
The Navy List

The Navy List

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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the ...

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the ...

Patricia Hill Collins

She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.
Fly-tying Techniques and Patterns

Fly-tying Techniques and Patterns

John Van Vliet

Select the right tools, hooks, thread and material to tie over 200 different fly patterns including streamers, nymphs, dry flies, terrestrials, and bass bugs.
Sky Hooks

Sky Hooks

Neil Campbell

This debut novel by Neil Campbell, author of the short story collections Broken Doll and Pictures From Hopper, is a moving and darkly comic meditation on the challenge of trying to realise dreams in a harsh and unfair world.
William in Trouble

William in Trouble

Richmal Crompton

In William in Trouble William Brown is back in a collection of ten Just William Stories - now with a brand-new cover look illustrated by Alex T. Smith. There is only one William.
William the Outlaw

William the Outlaw

Richmal Crompton

. . In William the Outlaw everyone's favourite troublemaker, William Brown, is back in a collection of ten Just William stories - now with a brand-new cover look illustrated by Sara Ogilvie. There is only one William.
Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine ...

Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine ...

Yvonne D. Sims

... by adopting an oppositional stance—taking the positive traits of the heroines and reclaiming them, while discarding the negative attributes associated with these heroines. hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Jacqueline Bobo, and K. Sue Jewell also ...
Improvising Blues Harmonica

Improvising Blues Harmonica

David Barrett

This book and recording cover: chorus forms; what licks, riffs, melodies and phrases are made of; scale and chord theory; concepts for soloing (focus notes); phrase shaping; accompaniment playing; hooks, heads and bridges; elements that add ...
Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and ...

Race and Place in Birmingham: The Civil Rights and ...

Bobby M. Wilson

... 1966), 30-31. 39. Samir Amin, Empire of Chaos (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1992), 79-80. 40. hooks, Yearning, 27; Delgado, Beyond the Politics of Place, 20. 41. Stephen Philion "Bridging the Gap Between New Social Movement  ...
Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti

The finest of Modotti's images are presented in this volume, accompanied by an essay by Margaret Hooks, author of the award-winning biography Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary (Pandora, 1983).

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