bell hooks
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1952-09-25 – 2021-12-15
Place of birth: Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
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.
Known for

BaadAsssss Cinema
2002Self
My Feminism
1997Self
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
1998Self
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004Self
Becoming bell hooks
2024Self
Hillbilly
2018Self
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
1997Self
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995Self