killing rage: Ending Racism [Paperback]

hookss books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.
Cornel West

More than two decades before Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement roiled America, bell hooks was declaring that abolishing racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. InKilling Rage, one of our premier cultural and social critics brings the Black feminists voice to bear on this countrys public discourse on race, redressing the historical shunting of womens writing in this sphere to the side.

In incisive essays, hooks addresses the wide spectrum of topics dealing with race and racism in the United States: friendship between Black women and white women; psychological trauma among African Americans; and internalized racism in movies and the media. hooks tackles the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it, sharing a vision where killing ragethe fierce anger of Black people stung by repeated instances of everyday racismoffers not only a wellspring of love and strength, but also a realistic catalyst for positive change.

This seminal book is one Americans need today if were to remain united tomorrow.

bell hooks(1952-2021), born Gloria Jean Watkins, was an American author who used lowercase as both an homage to her maternal great-grandmother and an attempt to keep readers focus where it belonged: on her work. When she died in 2021, hooks left behind a lifetime of thought that was decades ahead of its time. In the heyday of feminism, when the movement claimed to represent all women equally, hooks revealed inAint I a Womanwritten when she was only nineteenhow the specific life experiences of Black women were being marginalized.

She never lost this pioneering spirit, bringing it to bear on more than thirty books of literary criticism, childrens fiction, poetry, and autobiography, includingKilling Rage: Ending Racism, Bonelý