It feels as if there is a bell hooks essay for every occasion in studies of race, gender, and sexuality. That is to say, it seems that bell hooks, who wrote over 30 books of criticism, five children's books, and the memoir Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996), penned everything we need to know—or has already prompted us to consider what we still need to understand—about interlocking systems of oppression during her coming of age, at the height of her professional career, for the now of the present day, and in the future. A social and cultural critic, poet, and unapologetic feminist scholar and activist, hooks disseminated the knowledge she gleaned from her intersectional positionality within the academy and with general audiences in mind. Moreover, she challenged the untutored who needed the truth about historical institutions of power deconstructed in plain speak by naming it in no uncertain terms: the...

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