Full name: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

Author: Bell Hooks Year: 1996 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Feminism Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805055122 0805055126

Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the emotional vulnerability of children. She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. In this world, too, black is a woman's color--worn when earned--daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about. hooks finds good company in solitude, good company in books. She also discovers, in the motionless body of misunderstanding, that writing is her most vital breath. Similar books: Parallel Time by Brent Staples Negroland by Margo Jefferson The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow Colored People by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unafraid of the Dark by Rosemary L. Bray Heavy by Kiese Laymon Black Notebooks by Toi Derricotte Black White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker Black Ice by Lorene Cary Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd Lost In Place by Mark Salzman Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel We Real Cool by Bell Hooks Talking Back by Bell Hooks Teaching Community by Bell Hooks Teaching Critical Thinking by Bell Hooks My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem