Maintaining connections with family and community across class boundaries demands more than just summary recall of where ones roots are, where one comes from. It requires knowing, naming, and being ever-mindful of those aspects of ones past that have enabled and do enable ones self-development in the present, that sustain and support, that enrich. One must also honestly confront barriers that do exist, aspects of that past that do diminish.
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About bell hooks
bell hooks was a 20th-century American author and activist. Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. She was best known for her writings on race, feminism, and social class. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Family — The ties of kinship, parenting, and unconditional love