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A Pillar of the Student Affairs Profession Shannon Beaver CSA 501 Dr. Rankin The Pennsylvania State University slb5009@psu.edu

 Born  Gloria Jean Hopkins in 1952  Zodiac Sign  Virgo  Hometown  Hopkinsville, Kentucky  Birth family composition  Working class family composed of her mother, father, five sisters, one brother, and extended family lived near by.  Mother: Rosa Bell Watkins worked as a homemaker  Father: Veodis Watkins worked as a custodian

 Experienced desegregation of public schools  Raised in a Black Baptist Church and in the 1970’s converted to Buddhism  1970’s had a serious relationship with an older black professor who was also a colleague and mentor  They spent 10 years together, her blossoming career and appointment at Yale ended their relationship in 1985.  hooks continued to want relationships throughout her life but her brain got in the way. As one ex- lover told her, “The next woman I’m with, I don’t want her to think.”  Wrote her first book, Aint I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism at age 19 and took the pseudonym bell hooks

Degrees Faculty Appointments  Yale University, New Haven, CT  B.A., Stanford University,  Assistant Professor of Afro- 1973 American studies and English, 1985-88  Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH  M.A., University of  Associate Professor of English, Wisconsin-Madison, 1976 1988 – 95  City College of New York  Distinguished Professor of  Ph.D., University of English, 1995 – 2004 California, Santa Cruz, 1983  Berea College, Berea, KY  Distinguished Professor-in- Residence, 2004-present.

Research and Writing Interests Pearls of Wisdom  Critical consciousness  “Imperialist, white  Feminism supremacist, capitalist patriarchy”  Black Feminism  Racial Oppression  “Dominator culture”  Economic Oppression  “Engaged pedagogy”  Oppression in mass media  Culture  LGBT Rights

 Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism (1981)  Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (1999) All About Love: New Visions (2000) Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-esteem (2003)    And There We Wept: Poems . (1978)  Salvation: Black People and Love (2001) Art on My Mind: Visual Politics (1995) Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-recovery   (1993)  Be Boy Buzz (2002) Skin Again (2004)  Black Looks: Race and Representation (1992)   Soul Sister: Women, Friendship, and Fulfillment (2005)  Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (1996) Space (2004)  Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1991)  (with Cornel West)  Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989) Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002) Teaching to Transgress: Education As the Practice of   Freedom (1994)  Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2000)  Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (2003)  Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)  We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004)  Happy to be Nappy (1999)  Where We Stand: Class Matters (2000)  Homemade Love (2002)  The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2003)  Justice: Childhood Love Lessons (2000)  Witness (2006)  Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995) Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (1997)  Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994)   Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (1990)  Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies (1996)

 Published in 1994.  Most clearly defines hooks’ engaged pedagogy.  According to Google Scholar this book has been cited by 797 scholarly publications (Google, 2011).  Learning Reconsidered 2: A Practical Guide to Implementing a Campus- Wide Focus on the Student Experience and Student Services: A Handbook for the Profession , cited her works to develop concepts like constructivism, Baxter Magola's Learning Partnerships Model, social identity theory, and the importance of de-fragmenting the organizational structure of the academy (Schuh, Jones, Harper, 2011; Keeling, 2006).  hooks' social theories are echoed in student affairs models that concentrate on multiculturalism, educating the whole student (inside and outside of the classroom), and the importance of self actualization and student experience in the acquisition of knowledge.  hooks beleives that the purpose for students in today’s university is to not simply act as a “banking system of information” (hooks, p.12) but to develop knowledge that is based in relevant experience and community; that addresses not only intellectual development but, “how one lived[s], behave[s]” (hooks, p.3).

 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1991, for Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics  Writer's Award, Lila Wallace/ Reader's Digest Fund, 1994  Image Award nomination, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 2001, for Happy to Be Nappy  Children's Book of the Year designation, Bank Street College, 2002, for Homemade Love  Hurston Wright Legacy Award nomination, 2002, for Salvation: Black People and Love  Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism : "One of the twenty most influential women’s books in the last 20 years" by Publishers Weekly (1992)  Utne Reader' s "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life"  The Atlantic Monthly' s "One of our nation’s leading public intellectuals"

 The Nomadic Spirit Critical Thinkers Resources  http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/hooks.htm  bell hooks on facebook  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bell-Hooks/22762902634  The Shambhala Sun (multiple articles by bell hooks concerning Buddhism)  http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=30 &Itemid=161  Discover the Networks (critique of bell hooks)  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2217  All about hooks (unofficial site for revolutionary activist bell hooks)  http://www.allaboutbellhooks.com/  Internet Movie Database (all of bell hooks films and appearances)  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393654/  YouTube (multiple lectures and interviews given by hooks)  http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bell+hooks&aq=f

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