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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 25th 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.
bell hooks
bell hooks (1952-2021) was an influential cultural critic, educator, and writer. Celebrated as one of America’s leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Her unique pseudonym honors her great-grandmother, a brilliant and strong-willed Black woman who inspired her commitment to resistance and freedom. hooks was the author of more than 40 books, including the New York Times bestsellers All About Love and Communion in the landmark Love Song to the Nation trilogy, as well as the memoir Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood and the poetry collection Appalachian Elegy.
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