Salvation // Black People & Love

Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestsellingAll About Love: New Visions.Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirringSalvation: Black People and Love.

Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation movements of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, or hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love’s got to do with it.

Salvationis work that helps us healand shows us how to create beloved American communities.

bell hookswas an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of Americas leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was the author of more than 17 books, including the New York Times bestsellerAll About Love: New Visions; Salvation: Black People and Love; Communion: the Female Search for Love, as well as the landmark memoirBone Black: Memories of Girlhood.

• Paperback:256 pages
• Language:English
• ISBN-10:0060959495
• ISBN-13:9780060959494
• Product Dimensions:5.3 x 0.6 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight:8 ounces