Breaking Bread, Bell Hooks
Breaking Bread, Bell Hooks
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Breaking Bread
Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Author: Bell Hooks, Cornel West

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/21/2023

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.

About Bell Hooks

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. She is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on November 17, 2013

These humans have the best ideas of any humans. Full stop. But the format was underwhelming to me. I understand why they did it -- I love the concept of two friends in conversation, the authenticity and warmth of it. But I found myself wanting to see these talented writers write. But very good ideas,......more

Goodreads review by Larry on November 29, 2023

I am embarrassed to say that Bell hooks and Cornell West we’re not familiar names to me until the last year or so. The best parts of this book are when they are talking with each other, the dialogue, part of the book. Occasionally, I think, both read parts of their written work from academia. I have......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 09, 2025

Thought-provoking!......more

Goodreads review by Renée on September 23, 2014

Two of the greatest popular scholars.......more

Goodreads review by coodles on January 12, 2025

Fun read structurally, and bell and Cornel have great rapport and awesome respect for one another and their intellectual honesty. I feel like sometimes they set themselves up for a conversation that never comes. Basically my complaint is that the book is too short ig Some things I took away: 1. GRANDM......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List