About

Known credits:
10
Birthday:
1952-09-25
Place of birth:
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
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bell hooks

Overview

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

Acting
2024 Becoming bell hooks Actor Self N/A
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2018 Hillbilly Actor Self 59
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2014 bell hooks: Dialogue on Transgressive Sexual Practice Actor Self N/A
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2004 Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me Actor Self N/A
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2002 BaadAsssss Cinema Actor Self 58
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1998 I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America Actor Self N/A
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1997 My Feminism Actor Self 59
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1997 bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation Actor Self N/A
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1994 Black Is… Black Ain’t Actor Self 59
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Writing
2004 Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me Writing Novel N/A
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