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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
TV Involvements: 0
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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.
Most Famous Work
BaadAsssss Cinema
(2002) SelfHillbilly
(2018) SelfBlack Is … Black Ain’t
(1994) SelfI Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
(1998) SelfHappy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
(2004) SelfMy Feminism
(1997) Selfbell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
(1997) SelfActing
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2018 | Self | |
2014 | Self | |
2004 | Self | |
2002 | Self | |
1998 | Self | |
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1994 | Self | |
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2004 | Novel | |
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