bell hooks

bell hooks

Actor · Writer

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
September 25, 1952

Biography

Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.

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Representative Works

Hillbilly
Hillbilly
7.0
/ English
BaadAsssss Cinema
BaadAsssss Cinema
6.0
/ English
Becoming bell hooks
Becoming bell hooks
No Rating Yet
/ English
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Black Is… Black Ain’t
5.8
/ English
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
8.0
/ English
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
No Rating Yet
/ English
My Feminism
My Feminism
10.0
/ English
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
No Rating Yet
/ English
bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice
bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice
No Rating Yet
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Hillbilly
2018Nominee

Best Performance

Hillbilly

BaadAsssss Cinema
2002Nominee

Best Performance

BaadAsssss Cinema

Becoming bell hooks
2024Nominee

Best Performance

Becoming bell hooks

Career Highlights

Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995Highlight

Best Performance

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004Highlight

Best Performance

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

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