Episode Summary
This podcast, taken from the ALOUD archive, is a discussion from 1999's \"The Big Questions\" series. A celebration of writing, reading, and public debate, \"The Big Questions\" features visionary thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities who are asking new questions, challenging accepted theories, and reframing ancient dialects.
Participant(s) Bio
Bell Hooks is the author of fifteen books, including Killing Rage, Ain't I a Woman, and Bone Black: Memories of a Girlhood. She is a distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York. 'She writes with a deep sense of urgency about the existential and psychocultural dimensions of African-American life, especially those spiritual and intimate issues of love, hurt, pain, envy, and desire usually probed by artists...Her books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.' (Cornel West)
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