Da che parte stiamo: la classe conta

bell hooks shares her upbringing and personal history with us in this book, and for that reason it is worth savoring. She has a very conversational style in this book; she is not writing a polemic. But she is teaching. This book reminds us that America does indeed have a class hierarchy, and indicat Leggi tutto

Add bell hooks to my list of favorite authors. Her assessment of American class hierarchy is spot on. And while I don’t necessarily agree with all of her countermeasures, I don’t take umbrage with them either. 4 big stars.

I confess I was looking forward to this like chocolate cake, been a bit blue lately, feeling all out of place in that way you do when you come from dirt poor and somehow end up doing a PhD, because in the academic 'us' and 'them', you know you come from the 'them' and proud of it to. And so you get

bell hooks restores my faith in humanity

bell hooks sets up a slow burn in this treatise on the ignored intersectional role that class plays in "classless" America. Blending her own experiences with academic scholarship, she creates a view of the melding of class, race, gender, and wealth that is at times uncomfortable to confront, but alw Leggi tutto

mein erstes buch von bell hooks, hab sehr viel gelernt!! spannend zu lesen, auch wie sie ihre eigene Perspektive mit Eltern aus der Arbeiter:innenklasse und sich selbst als erste Schwarze Frau aus der Familie am mehrheitlich weißen klassistischen College verknüpft