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Breaking Bread by Bell Hooks, Cornel West

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Breaking Bread

Narrator
Adenrele Ojo
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Publish Date
21 March 2023
Run Time
8 hours 54 minutes
Format
Audiobook
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What to expect

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice.



This twenty-fifth anniversary edition continues the dialogue with "In Solidarity," their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture, and the contemporary Black experience.

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Details

Author
Bell Hooks, Cornel West
Narrator
Adenrele Ojo
Duration
8 hours 54 minutes
Release Date
21 March 2023
ISBN
9798765057704
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Genre
Ethnic studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory

Synopsis

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice.This twenty-fifth anniversary edition continues the dialogue with "In Solidarity," their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture, and the contemporary Black experience.

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