bell hooks
Actor
- Born
- September 25, 1952 · Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
- Died
- December 15, 2021 (age 69)
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.
Known for
BaadAsssss Cinema
August 14, 2002
Black Is… Black Ain’t
October 11, 1995
Hillbilly
May 19, 2018
My Feminism
October 17, 1997
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
February 24, 2004
I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America
August 4, 1998
Becoming bell hooks
February 27, 2024
bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation
January 1, 1997
bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice
August 15, 2014
Acting9
- 2024Becoming bell hooks as Self
- 2018Hillbilly as Self
- 2014bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice as Self
- 2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self
- 2002BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- 1998I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America as Self
- 1997My Feminism as Self
- 1997bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation as Self
- 1995Black Is… Black Ain’t as Self