bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains: Homegrown
bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains: Homegrown
Conversations between renowned thinker and writer bell hooks and MacArthur Award-winning artist and activist Amalia Mesa-Bains began in the 1990s at Amalia's California kitchen table, where they shared personal stories, as well as their
political views and experiences. These conversations launched the joint project that became *Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism*.
*Homegrown* is part of this extended and continuing dialogue on the ways work, family, and cultural heritage have shaped hooks' and Mesa-Bains' political activism, teaching, and artistic expression. In the face of a mainstream media that
makes a concerted effort to polarize African Americans and Latino/as, emphasizing differences in culture, religion, and values, the book reveals connection.
As hooks and Mesa-Bains confront the challenges of building cross-cultural and cross-issue coalitions, they also speak to the viability of an oppositional politic shared by African Americans and Latino/as. The timely afterword offers the authors' thoughts on the emergent immigration rights movement in the US.
(sent from South End Press)
Conversations between renowned thinker and writer bell hooks and MacArthur Award-winning artist and activist Amalia Mesa-Bains began in the 1990s at Amalia's California kitchen table, where they shared personal stories, as well as their
political views and experiences. These conversations launched the joint project that became *Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism*.
*Homegrown* is part of this extended and continuing dialogue on the ways work, family, and cultural heritage have shaped hooks' and Mesa-Bains' political activism, teaching, and artistic expression. In the face of a mainstream media that
makes a concerted effort to polarize African Americans and Latino/as, emphasizing differences in culture, religion, and values, the book reveals connection.
As hooks and Mesa-Bains confront the challenges of building cross-cultural and cross-issue coalitions, they also speak to the viability of an oppositional politic shared by African Americans and Latino/as. The timely afterword offers the authors' thoughts on the emergent immigration rights movement in the US.
(sent from South End Press)
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