Breaking Bread Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

You must be logged in to access this title.

Sign up now

Already a member? Log in

Synopsis

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice.
This 25th anniversary edition continues the dialogue with "In Solidarity," their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture and the contemporary Black experience.

Book details

Author:
Bell Hooks, Cornel West
ISBN:
9781138218765
Publisher:
Routledge
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-07-12
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
Gloria Watkins and Cornel West 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies