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Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

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Yearning

Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

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"For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination"--

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Publisher
South End Press
Language
English
Pages
236

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2005, Jump at the Sun
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Cover of: Yearning
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
November 1990, South End Press
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Cover of: Yearning
Yearning: race, gender, and cultural politics
1990, South End Press
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"Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun was recently made into a film and shown to a mass audience on the PBS series American Playhouse."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
236
Dimensions
8.8 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
Weight
15.2 ounces

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OL8253986M
Internet Archive
yearningracegend00hook_937
ISBN 10
0896083861
ISBN 13
9780896083868
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73913
Goodreads
92812

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Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun was recently made into a film and shown to a mass audience on the PBS series American Playhouse.
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April 6, 2014 Edited by ImportBot Added IA ID.
January 4, 2011 Edited by Bryan Endersstocker merge authors
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