About Author

bell hooks�is a writer and critic who has taught most recently at Berea College in Kentucky, where she is Distinguished Professor in Residence. Among her many books are the feminist classic�Ain't I A Woman, the dialogue (with Cornel West)�Breaking Bread, the children's books�Happy to Be Nappy�and�Be Boy Buzz,�the memoir�Bone Black�(Holt), and the general interest titles�All About Love,�Rock My Soul, and�Communion.�Her many books published�with Routledge include�Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom,�Belonging: A Culture of Place,�We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity,�Where We Stand: Class Matters,�Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom,�Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations, and�Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies.