Bell Hooks

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bell Hooks
Occupation	Activist
Date Of Birth	Sep 25, 1952(1952-09-25)
Age	72
Birthplace	Hopkinsville
Country	United States
Birth City	Kentucky
Horoscope	Virgo

Bell Hooks Biography

Bell Hooks is one of the most popular and richest Activist who was born on September 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States. American writer, feminist and social activist, whose actual name was Gloria Jean Watkins. The book she wrote was “Ain’t I a Woman? : Black Women and Feminism”.

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Watkins was born in Hopkinsville, a small, segregated town in Kentucky, to a working-class family. Her father, Veodis Watkins, was a custodian and her mother, Rosa Bell Watkins, was a homemaker. She had five sisters and one brother. An avid reader, she was educated in racially segregated public schools, and wrote of great adversities when making the transition to an integrated school, where teachers and students were predominantly white. She later graduated from Hopkinsville High School in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She obtained her BA in English from Stanford University in 1973, and her MA in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976.

Her teaching career began in 1976 as an English professor and senior lecturer in Ethnic Studies at the University of Southern California. During her three years there, Golemics, a Los Angeles publisher, released her first published work, a chapbook of poems titled And There We Wept (1978), written under the name “bell hooks”. She adopted her maternal great-grandmother’s name as a pen name because her great-grandmother “was known for her snappy and bold tongue, which [she] greatly admired”. She put the name in lowercase letters “to distinguish [herself from] her great-grandmother.” She said that her unconventional lowercasing of her name signifies what is most important is her works: the “substance of books, not who I am.”

She was born into an upper-middle class family, with five sisters and a brother.

Bell Hooks Net Worth

Bell Hooks is one of the richest Activist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bell Hooks 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was a student at Stanford University and then earned her M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Her writing addresses gender, race, capitalism, gender oppression, class dominance.

Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name “bell hooks” is borrowed from her maternal great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.

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In 2002, hooks gave a commencement speech at Southwestern University. Eschewing the congratulatory mode of traditional commencement speeches, she spoke against what she saw as government-sanctioned violence and oppression, and admonished students who she believed went along with such practices. This was followed by a controversy described in the Austin Chronicle after an “irate Arizonian” had criticized the speech in a letter to the editor. The newspaper reported that many in the audience booed the speech, though “several graduates passed over the provost to shake her hand or give her a hug”.

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Bell Ranked on the list of most popular Activist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Bell Hooks celebrates birthday on September 25 of every year.

In 2004, she joined Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, as Distinguished Professor in Residence, where she participated in a weekly feminist discussion group, “Monday Night Feminism”; a luncheon lecture series, “Peanut Butter and Gender”; and a seminar, “Building Beloved Community: The Practice of Impartial Love”. Her 2008 book, belonging: a culture of place, includes a candid interview with author Wendell Berry as well as a discussion of her move back to Kentucky. She has undertaken three scholar-in-residences at The New School. Mostly recently she did one for a week in October 2014. She engaged in public dialogues with Gloria Steinem, Laverne Cox, and Cornel West.

What was bell hooks cause of death?

Kidney failure

What is bell hooks theory of feminism?

In Feminist theory: from margin to center, hooks proposes a new definition of feminism, one that does not simply fight for the equality of women and men (of the same class) but of a movement that fights to end sexist oppression and exploitation without neglecting other forms of oppression such as racism, classism, …

Why did bell hooks use lowercase?

Hooks assumed her pseudonym, the name of her great-grandmother, to honour female legacies; she preferred to spell it in all lowercase letters to focus attention on her message rather than herself.

Why did bell hooks not capitalize her name?

Born Gloria Jean Watkins hooks was looking for a way to honor her maternal great-grandmother. Author bell hooks opted not to capitalize her name, hoping to keep the public’s focus on her work. But over her decades at the forefront of Black feminist writing, the punctuation choice became a constant curiosity.

What is the concept of intersectionality?

(Oxford Dictionary) Intersectionality is a framework for conceptualizing a person, group of people, or social problem as affected by a number of discriminations and disadvantages. It takes into account people’s overlapping identities and experiences in order to understand the complexity of prejudices they face.