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Wow, just wow! This is so impressive and strong and brutal and true. It sometimes really hurts to read such texts, but they are meant to. Otherwise things wouldn't change. I've wanted to read something by bell hooks for a long time and I'm happy I finally did. Once again I've been showed all the privileges I have. bell hooks shows us the deep roots of slavery and misogyny. Sometimes I was out of words by what I heard and felt so angry and confused

I‘ve been reading this book for my women of color in the United States course and it‘s been such an amazing inspiring read so far

I don‘t know what I was expecting. #Bookopoly

Time for my next #Bookopoly pick. This has been on my TBR for years so it‘s nice to have an excuse to read it. I might not start it until tomorrow though.

This was a profound read about how the history of America has been impacted by black women and how that same country has impacted them. This book takes us through slavery, Jim crow and after and it exposed how Black women were treated by White Women, Black Men and the wider country. Very insightful and thought provoking.

I read excerpts of this in college and finally read the whole thing, it is a thick read because the writing is done in an academic and factual manner but it is very worth the read as anything that examines race and feminism intersectionally is.

Such a phenomenal book and a must-read!!!!! This is the 2nd book I‘ve read by bell hooks and I plan to read many more! She did an excellent job at tackling the importance of intersectionality and addressing societal problems head-on. She explored the complexity of issues, such as the limitations of mainstream feminism, thoroughly. She did not take an us vs. them approach or state that only one group is at fault. One of my new fave books!

A breakdown of the convergence of racism and sexism experienced by black women across US history. I‘m blown away by the clarity of the writing. hooks wrote this, her first feminist work, as a student with her uninitiated mom in mind. She‘s so successful in opening her ideas to a wider readership that I think you could‘ve handed this to me as a teen just starting to understand feminism, and I‘d have gotten it. Plain statements of complex ideas.

Can‘t lie, this book was challenging for me at times because I‘m not the most well-versed in cultural/critical theory, but it was very thought-provoking and I enjoyed watching some of the cultural products discussed (ie. Spike Lee‘s Do the Right Thing + MJ‘s “Bad” music video) after reading her essays about them. Also, I thought her last 2 essays on black feminist cultural criticism were particularly brilliant. Glad I finally read this one!

This got a little dense for me, listening in my car, because I know I would highlight and take notes all over a physical copy. I learned a lot about how racism, sexism, and imperialist colonial ideologies worked together to work against black women, particularly in their treatment and exclusion from the white-women led suffrage and women‘s rights movements.