Homegrown - Hardcover

Hooks, Bell; Mesa-Bains, Amalia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113872307X ISBN 13: 9781138723078

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication.

This new edition includes a new afterword, in which Mesa-Bains reflects on the changes, conflicts, and criticisms of the last decade.

About this title

About the Author:

A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks is best known for classic books including Feminist Theory, Bone Black, All About Love, Rock My Soul, Belonging, We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real. hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky.

Amalia Mesa-Bains is an artist and cultural critic. Her artworks, primarily interpretations of traditional Chicano altars, resonate both in contemporary formal terms and in their ties to her Chicano community and history. She has pioneered the documentation and interpretation of Chicano traditions in Mexican-American art and is a leader in the field of community arts. Among her many awards is the distinguished MacArthur Fellowship. She is Professor Emerita in the Visual and Public Art department at California State University at Monterey Bay.

 

Review:

"Mesa-Bains’ conveys... the epochal sweep of Latin American experience and captures the transformed sense of reality characteristic of diasporan life." -- Transition

"[Mesa-Bains'] examines the way that gender and ethnic identity are defined, explores the complex contemporary dilemmas of the Latino community." -- Art in America

"[bell hooks is] one of the foremost black intellectuals in America today." -- Publishers Weekly

"bell hooks is ardent, questioning, and rigorous...a formidable feminist social and cultural critic." -- Booklist

"hooks is an astute and downright brilliant... social critic and thinker." -- Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 113872307X
• ISBN 13: 9781138723078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 158