bell hooks

Biography

Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 - December 15, 2021) better known by her pen name as bell hooks, was a professor, social activist, public intellectual, cultural critic, feminist and author of 40 books, including Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Reel to Real, and All About Love: New Visions. In 2014, the bell hooks Center was founded at Berea College in Kentucky. In 2021, hooks died of kidney failure at her home, following a brief period of illness.

Known For

BaadAsssss Cinema

2002•Movie•

6.0

Black Is… Black Ain’t

1995•Movie•

5.8

Becoming bell hooks

2024•Movie

I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America

1998•Movie

Hillbilly

2018•Movie•

7.0

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

2004•Movie•

8.0

bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation

1997•Movie

My Feminism

1997•Movie•

10.0

Filmography