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Bone Black Spiral-Bound | 1997-10-15

bell hooks

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Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the emotional vulnerability of children. She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. In this world, too, black is a woman's color--worn when earned--daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about. hooks finds good company in solitude, good company in books. She also discovers, in the motionless body of misunderstanding, that writing is her most vital breath.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0805055126
Item Weight: 0.4 lbs
Dimensions: 5.0 x 0.6 x 8.0 inches
"Bone Black is a lucid, challenging, and entrancing read."--The Washington Post Book World

"With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, Bell Hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down--or forget. Bone Black takes us into the cave of self-creation."--Gloria Steinem

"A canvas of vividly impressionistic splashes of growing up young, gifted, black, and female."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952, used lowercase as both an homage to her maternal great-grandmother and an attempt to keep readers' focus where it belonged: on her work. When she died in 2021, hooks left behind a lifetime of thought that was decades ahead of its time. In the heyday of feminism, when the movement claimed to represent all women equally, hooks revealed in Ain't I a Woman--written when she was only nineteen--how the specific life experiences of Black women were being marginalized. She never lost this pioneering spirit, bringing it to bear on more than thirty books of literary criticism, children's fiction, poetry, and autobiography, including Communion, Where We Stand, Feminism Is for Everybody, and the New York Times bestseller All About Love. A professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women's studies, hooks taught at USC, Yale, among other institutions, including Berea College in her home state of Kentucky where the bell hooks center was established to honor her work. Winner of the American Book Award in 1991 for Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, a 2000 nominee for the NAACP's Image Award, and one of Time's 100 Women of the Year in 2020, hooks left her mark in every field she entered.