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Where We Stand is a powerful new book by one of America's most admired critics and writers. For years we have turned to Bell Hooks - feminist, social thinker, memoirist, teacher - for her deeply felt ideas on women, race, culture, sexuality, and more recently on love and children. Now Bell Hooks talks about class -the "elephant in the room" - the subject we all know is central to our culture and its problems but that hasn't been given the attention it so desperately needs. Why is it that the face of poverty in America is a black face, even though most of the thirty-six million poor in America are white? How do fantasies of wealth's power help keep the poor poor? What do black teens want, and how do they learn to want it? Are wealthy black Americans any more aware of class issues than wealthy whites? Why do we need so much money, after all? Bell Hooks talks about these subjects in her own style. "Hooks delves into the deep divisions of class, socio-economics, and race that are too often lightly stepped around and avoided and brings them out, lays them on the table, and helps us bravely through the pieces and make sense of them." - Black Issues Book ReviewDrawing on both her roots in

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Author

hooks, bell

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280316937

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Sociology

Rating

4.16 / 5 (1,580 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14