Table of Contents

Introduction, Maria del Guadalupe Davidson and George Yancy

Part One: Critical Pedagogy and Praxis

1. Borderlines: bell hooks and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Change, Nathalia E. Jaramillo and Peter McLaren

2. Engaging Whiteness and the Practice Freedom: The Creation Of Subversive Academic Spaces, George Yancy

3. Teaching to Transgress: Deconstructing Normalcy and Re-signifying the Marked Body, Cindy LaCom and Susan Hadley

4. Bell hooks, White Supremacy, and the Academy, Tim Davidson and Jeanette R. Davidson

5. Engaging bell hooks: How Teacher Educators Can Work to Sustain Themselves and Their Work, Gretchen Givens Generett

6. Bell hooks’ Children’s Literature: Writing to Transform the World at its Root, Carme Manuel

Part Two: The Dynamics of Race and Gender

7. Talking Back: bell hooks, Feminism, and Philosophy, Donna-Dale L. Marcano

8. Bell hooks and the Move from Marginalized Other to Radical Black Subject, Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

9. The Ethics of Blackness: bell hooks’ Postmodern Blackness and the Imperative of Liberation, Clevis Headley

10. The Specter of Race: bell hooks, Deconstruction, and Revolutionary Blackness, Arnold Farr

Part Three: Spirituality and Love

11. Love Matters: bell hooks on Political Resistance and Change, Kathy Glass

12. Love, Politics, and Ethics in the Postmodern Feminist Work of bell hooks and Julia Kristeva, Marilyn Edelstein

13. "Revolutionary Interdependence": bell hooks’ Ethic of Love as a Basis for a Feminist Liberation Theology of the Neighbor, Nancy E. Nienhuis

14. Towards a Love Ethic: Love and Spirituality in bell hooks’ Writing, Susana Vega-González

About the Author

Oklahoma University, USA Duquesne University, USA

Reviews

"Critical Reflections on bell hooks is a powerful tribute to a living pedagogy that courageously unearths the destructive ideologies of oppression and human suffering, in an effort to fully embody the vitality of our human possibilities. These critically raw and heartfelt essays not only illuminate the genius of bell hooks, but also paint a vivid portrait of the ways in which our lives must serve as the entrance to political consciousness and the key to decolonizing our world." --Antonia Darder, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Davidson and Yancy have pulled together an impressive array of scholars from around the globe who declare--in vivid and compelling fashion--the importance of bell hooks' work. Hooks' views on critical pedagogy and praxis, the dynamics of race and gender, and the need for holistic healing spiritually and culturally make her an intellectual phenomenon. Critical Perspectives on bell hooks is a must read." --Carol E. Henderson, Associate Director and Professor of Black American Studies and Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware