Bell Hooks, Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (New York: New Press, 1995).
Bell Hooks (nee Gloria Watkins) is
Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York. Born in
Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1952, hooks, received
her B.A. from Stanford University in 1973,
her M.A. in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin and her Ph.D. in 1983
from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Although hooks is mainly known as a feminist
thinker, her writings cover a broad range of topics on gender, race,
teaching and the significance of media for
contemporary culture. She strongly believes
that these topics cannot be dealt with as separately, but must be
understood as being interconnectedness. As an example,
she refers to the idea of a "White
Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy" and its interconnectedness, rather
than to its more traditionally separated and component parts.
A passionate scholar, hooks is among the leading public intellectuals of her generation.
