April 19-23, 2006   Spokane and Cheney, WA
	bell hooks bell hooks bell hooks has written numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on issues of race, gender, class, and culture, all of which she sees as intertwined. Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life, she is a popular and engaging speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. She is well known for her intelligent, influential critiques of "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" and the feminist movement, which she asserts speaks mainly for white, upper-middle-class interests.   Her first book, Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981), which she began writing when she was 19, was named one of the "twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years" by Publishers Weekly in 1992. Since that first auspicious work, bell hooks has written over 35 books about topics including feminism, love, black intellectualism, race and class in media, teaching, masculinity, and racism.   A few of her most recent books are Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (South End Press, 2000), The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (Washington Square Press, 2004), Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Updated Edition, South End Press, 2005), Home Grown: Engaged Cultural Criticism with Amalia Mesa-Baines (South End Press, forthcoming 2006), and Be Boy Buzz with illustrator Chris Raschka (children, Jump at the Sun, 2005).   bell hooks (pseudonym for Gloria Watkins), was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1952. She received her BA from Stanford University in 1973, her MA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin, and her PhD in 1983 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has taught at Yale University and Oberlin College and lectured throughout the world. Hooks was formerly Distinguished Profesoor of English at City College of New York and currently serves as Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky.     Authors  |  Children / Youth  |  Keynotes  |  Panels  |  Schedule  |  Sponsorships  |  Tickets  |  Workshops  |  Back to Main