Author Saeed Jones noted that her death came just a week after the loss of the celebrated Black author and critic Greg Tate. Kendi, Roxane Gay, Tressie McMillan Cottom and others mourned hooks. Among her most famous expressions was her definition of feminism, which she called “a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression.” Rejecting the isolation of feminism, civil rights and economics into separate fields, she was a believer in community and connectivity and how racism, sexism and economic disparity reinforced each other. Her notable works included “Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism,” “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center” and “All About Love: New Visions.” She also wrote poetry and children’s stories and appeared in such documentaries as “Black Is … Black Ain’t” and “Hillbilly.”
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She drew upon professional scholarship and personal history as she completed dozens of books that influenced countless peers and helped provide a framework for current debates about race, class and feminism. Starting in the 1970s, hooks was a profound presence in the classroom and on the page. “It was a privilege to know her, and the world is a lesser place today because she is gone. Strong-Leek, a former provost of Berea College, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
“She was a giant, no nonsense person who lived by her own rules, and spoke her own truth in a time when Black people, and women especially, did not feel empowered to do that,” Dr.
Linda Strong-Leek said she had been ill for a long time. Additional details were not immediately available, although her close friend Dr. In a statement issued through William Morrow Publishers, hooks’ family announced that she died Wednesday in Berea, Kentucky, home to the bell hooks center at Berea College. NEW YORK (AP) - bell hooks, the groundbreaking author, educator and activist whose explorations of how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined helped shape academic and popular debates over the past 40 years, has died.
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