bell hooks, poet, educator, and militant is a remarkable figure in feminism and Black liberation. Like Angela Davis, hooks examines the legacy of slavery, colonialism, and patriarchal subordination of women together, innovating a hands-on pedagogical approach that attends to the attending historical and present trauma. Intensely personal, with a commitment to intersectional feminism grounded in biography, hooks' approach is unique in its concern for both men and women as oppressed and traumatized subjects of patriarchy. hooks is also a brilliant rethinker of pedagogy for liberation, developing strategies from Paolo Freire’s ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ in a brutally honest, materialist reckoning of where we are today, examining demands for justice and learning how to organize together to attain this justice.
readings
bell hooks Where We Stand (we read from Ch. 9)
bell hooks teaching to transgress (we read from Ch. 5)
hooks keynote at University of Oregon 2006 quoted in slides.