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Chapter 1 Preface: To Know Where I'm Going -- chapter 2 Kentucky Is My Fate -- chapter 3 Moved by Mountains -- chapter 4 Touching the Earth -- chapter 5 Reclamation and Reconciliation -- chapter 6 To Be Whole and Holy -- chapter 7 Again — Segregation Must End -- chapter 8 Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination -- chapter 9 Drive through Tobacco -- chapter 10 Earthbound: On Solid Ground -- chapter 11 An Aesthetic of Blackness: Strange and Oppositional -- chapter 12 Inspired Eccentricity -- chapter 13 A Place Where the Soul Can Rest -- chapter 14 Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand -- chapter 15 Piecing It All Together -- chapter 16 On Being a Kentucky Writer -- chapter 17 Returning to the Wound -- chapter 18 Healing Talk: A Conversation -- chapter 19 Take Back the Night — Remake the Present -- chapter 20 Habits of the Heart -- chapter 21 A Community of Care.

Introduction: some opening remarks -- Talking back -- "When I was a young soldier for the revolution": coming to voice -- Feminism: a transformational politic -- On self-recovery -- Feminist theory: a radical agenda -- Feminist scholarship: ethical issues -- Toward a revolutionary feminist pedagogy -- Black and female: reflections on graduate school -- On being black at Yale: education as the practice of freedom -- Keeping close to home: class and education -- Violence in intimate relationships: a feminist perspective -- Feminism and militarism: a comment -- Pedagogy and political commitment: a comment -- Feminist politicization: a comment -- Overcoming White supremacy: a comment -- Homophobia in Black communities -- Feminist focus on men: a comment -- "Whose pussy is this": a feminist comment -- Black women writing: creating more space -- Ain't I a woman: looking back -- Writing autobiography -- To Gloria, who is she: on using a pseudonym -- Interview -- Black women and feminism.

1. Black women : shaping feminist theory -- 2. Feminism : a movement to end sexist oppression -- 3. The significance of feminist movement -- 4. Sisterhood : political solidarity among women -- 5. Men : comrades in struggle -- 6. Changing perspectives on power -- 7. Rethinking the nature of work -- 8. Educating women : a feminist agenda -- 9. Feminist movement to end violence -- 10. Revolutionary parenting -- 11. Ending female sexual oppression -- 12. Feminist revolution : development through struggle.

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.

"In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship--in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film--and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: 'The essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert.' As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do"--

Preface to the new edition -- Liberation scenes : speak this yearning -- The politics of radical black subjectivity -- Postmodern blackness -- The chitlin circuit : on black community -- Homeplace : a site of resistance -- Critical interrogation : talking race, resisting racism -- Reflections on race and sex -- Representations : feminism and black masculinity -- Sitting at the feet of the messenger : remembering Malcolm X -- Third world diva girls : politics of feminist solidarity -- An aesthetic of blackness : strange and oppositional -- Aesthetic inheritances : history worked by hand -- Culture to culture : ethnography and cultural studies as critical intervention -- Saving black folk culture : Zora Neale Hurston as anthropologist and writer -- Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness -- Stylish nihilism : race, sex, and class at the movies -- Representing whiteness : seeing wings of desire -- Counter-hegemonic art : do the right thing -- A call for militant resistance -- Seductive sexualities : representing blackness in poetry and on screen -- Black women and men : partnership in the 1990s -- An interview with bell hooks by gloria watkins : no, not talking back, January 1989 -- A final yearning : January 1990.

"What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives--to see that feminism is for everybody"--

1. Introduction -- 2. Racism : naming what hurts -- 3. Moving past blame : embracing diversity -- 4. Solidarity : women and race relations -- 5. Help wanted : re-imagining the past -- 6. Interrogating : the reinvention of Malcolm X -- 7. Tragic biography : resurrecting Henrietta Lacks -- 8. A path away from race : on spiritual conversion -- 9. Talking trash : a dialogue about Crash -- 10. A pornography of violence : a dialogue about Precious -- 11. A community of caring -- 12. Bonding across boundaries -- 13. Everyday resistance : saying no to white supremacy -- 14. Against mediocrity -- 15. Black self-determination -- 16. Ending racism : working for change -- 17. Writing beyond race -- 18. The practice of love.