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Bell hooks rest in power11/8/2023 They do not speak the languages of the immigrants, male and female, who work here in the meat industry, in clothing sweat-shops, as farmworkers, as cooks and busboys, as nannies and domestic workers. They cannot see the changing face of global labor-the faces of the women and children whom transnational white supremacist capitalist patriarchy exploits at home and abroad to do dirty work for little pay. "At the end of the day the threat of class warfare, of class struggle, is just too dangerous to face. She laid out a position completely relevant to today's debates around so-called class vs race "reductionism." Here is a bit of what she wrote: I'm proud to have passed along several of my own copies of her books to my daughter, Elleza Kelley (The Real Professor Kelley!) One of the books too often overlooked is Where We Stand: Class Matters (2000). I'm honored to have known Gloria, and to have been attacked as a "public intellectual" alongside her and others, though I did not see a lot of her over the last decade. And yet she leveled her critiques with love and honesty, and a willingness to be vulnerable and expose her life and experience as a window onto what it means to turn personal pain into transformation. she posed hard questions and called out those we thought of as comrades or "allies" for failures of judgment, analysis, vision, even courage. She did not write all of those books to be popular, but to "transgress," to force us to think about gender and patriarchy, love and intimacy, representation and revolution. bell refused to be disciplined by the academy, living life on her terms and writing for a much larger audience when it wasn't in vogue. I discovered bell hooks in 1981, when I read Ain't I a Woman in college and realized that we can't claim to be radical without being feminists, and as Barbara Smith told us, feminism is not white-owned.
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