Author

Publication

2005 - South End Press

Language

English

Word Count

41,000 words, Guess

Page Count

164 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004025682
  • LibraryThing583611
  • Goodreads51377

Classifications

  • LCCRC451.5.N4 H66 2005
  • LCCRC451.5.N4 H66 1993

Description

In *Sisters of the Yam*, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self-recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of self-healing and the need to be ever vigilant in the struggle for equality, *Sisters of the Yam* continues to speak to the experience of black womanhood.

First Sentence

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Excerpt

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Description

Bell Hooks examines how the emotional health of African-American women is impacted by the daily assaults of racism and sexism.

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  • Sisters Of The Yam: Black Women And Self-recovery (South End Press Classics Series)PaperbackSouth End Press2005-01-01
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