AIR#16. The legacy of bell hooks
To close the celebration of the Black History Month , and advancing that March as the Women's History Month is coming, Archives In Rainbow takes a look at the life, work and legacy of bell hooks, one of the most important voices in the study of pedagogy, race, feminism and class and decolonial srtuggles over the past fifty years. bell hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, into a working-class family. After studying in Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she earned her doctorate in English from the Universtiy of California, Santa Cruz, with a dissertation on the work of Toni Morrison in 1983, ten years before Morrison was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature. The young Gloria first used her pen name, bell hooks, in 1978 when she published a short collection of poems titled And There We Wept . The pen name was a tribute to her grand-mother, Bell Hooks, but with the name in lowercase to focus attention not on herself bu...