![]() ![]() ![]() "She was writing about what it means to be young and Black and angry and seeing clearly the thin line between being mad and madness, between radical action and personal self-destruction," says Chapman. While working with hooks, Chapman recognized that much of her mentor's work was concerned with the loss of Black life. Chapman remembers that her classes were highly sought after, and that she led a support group of Black women, called "Sisters of the Yam," who idolized her. At that time, Rachel Chapman, now a tenured professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, had the professor as her undergraduate thesis advisor. Many noted the accessibility of her language, as well as her willingness to write from life experience as a way to speak on spirituality and family.īefore she was bell hooks, though, she was Gloria Watkins, a rising scholar teaching at Yale University in the 1980s. ![]() Since hooks' passing on December 15, social media has flooded with eulogies and poignant reflections on almost three decades of her work in feminism, teaching and theory. The rest of the world probably knows her best through her most popular books, Feminism is For Everybody, Teaching to Transgress and All About Love: New Visions, which re-emerged in the pandemic as a New York Times bestseller despite being published in 2000. ![]()
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