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Former Associate Professor bell hooks Dies

December 20, 2021

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Bell Hooks wearing orange top and talking on stage with a microphone in hand

Author, poet, feminist, social activist and professor bell hooks.

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Author, poet, feminist, social activist and professor bell hooks died December 15 after an extended illness.  Named one of the most influential women of the past century by  in 2020, hooks authored more than three dozen books. Her first book, the poetry collection And There We Wept, was published in 1978 and was followed three years later by Ain鈥檛 I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, which in 1992 was named one of the twenty most influential woman鈥檚 books in the last 20 years by Publishers Weekly. She was a member of the 91直播 College faculty for six years, arriving in 1988 as an associate professor in English and women鈥檚 studies. Read her obituary in the .

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