Salvation
Black People and Love
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On Sale:
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06/12/2001
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Trade paperback
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Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, or hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love's got to do with it. Salvation is work that helps us heal -- and shows us how to create beloved American communities.
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Critical Praise for
Salvation
“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.”
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Maya Angelou
“A frank and hard-hitting, psychologically astute, and beautifully crafted treatise on the meaning of love and why it’s essential to a healthy society.”
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Booklist
“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple.”
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Black Issues Book Review
hooks offers one of her most touching and tender books to date in Salvation. . . . [She] offers chapters on Black love that will conjure familiar memories that are warm and inviting.
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Essence
"An impassioned plea . . . flair for crisp writing . . . stinging arguments . . . hooks reaches beyond the theoretical to address various walks of black life."
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Publishers Weekly
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Communion
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant...
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All About Love
"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love . Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist...
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