Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

In childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, making new life and new growth possible.

• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (Harvest in Translation)
• Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
• Intersectionality (Key Concepts)
• Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
• The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
• Black Skin, White Masks
• All About Love: New Visions
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge Classics) (Volume 138)