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Aliases: Gloria Watkins , Gloria Jean Watkins

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA

Homepage: https://www.berea.edu/centers/the-bell-hooks-center

Movie Involvements: 9

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Biography

Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.

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BaadAsssss Cinema
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BaadAsssss Cinema

(2002) Self
Hillbilly
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Hillbilly

(2018) Self
Black Is … Black Ain’t
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I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
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Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
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My Feminism
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My Feminism

(1997) Self
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
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bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice
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