- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (Dec 6 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0060959495
- ISBN-13: 978-0060959494
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #733,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
"The transformative power of love is the foundation of all meaningful social change," contends hooks in this impassioned plea to embattled African-American communities to embrace love as a force for change. Returning to the subject of last year's All About Love, this leading feminist scholar focuses this time on a love ethic that, she maintains, has the potential to undo the long-term effects of neglect, poverty and despair. As in other recent books on black relationships (such as George Edmond Smith and Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant's More Than Sex), hooks refutes the myth stemming from the time of slavery that black people haven't attempted to normalize their lives, citing documentation of familial love and strong community ties. Much of the conflict in relationships between black men and women can be linked, she suggests, to the sense of loss and abandonment arising from increasingly fractured black families; as a result, many members of the hip-hop generation mistrust love. Although hooks covers overworked turf in her chapters on self-love, her flair for crisp writing surfaces again in her celebration of black women's propensity for cultivating love in their communities and in her stinging arguments against the scapegoating of black single mothers. In the later chapters, hooks reaches beyond the theoretical to address various walks of black life. Her fans will delight in her array of cultural references, from Zora Neale Hurston, Cornel West and Erich Fromm to Eldridge Cleaver, Olga Silverstein and Lil' Kim. Despite recent criticism that hooks may have lost some of her bite, this book provides ample evidence to the contrary. (Feb. 1 Forecast: Though it won't defend hooks from the charge that she is rewriting the same book, this effort is more focused and potent that her last. Supported by an 11-city tour that will include events that play to her following among college students, this title should keep hooks's fans satisfied.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Feminist scholar hooks (All About Love), who believes that there is a crisis of "lovelessness" in the black community, continues her exploration of love with a different slant: she addresses its meaning in black experience today and offers a plan of action for "black survivial and self-determination." At the heart of the matter are poor neighborhoods that were once lively but are now deserted, a lack of spirituality, an emphasis on gaining material things, and the resulting collapse of community. Hooks also covers the issues of self-love, single mothers, black masculinity, heterosexual love, and homosexual love. She appeals to Martin Luther King, Cornel West, writer June Jordan, and others for words of wisdom in this well-written and informative work. Ultimately, she urges African Americans to return to love, the clear path to healing our wounded environment. A welcome addition to most academic and some public libraries.
-DAnn Burns, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
-DAnn Burns, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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By Gabriella (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Salvation (Paperback)
I could relate to this book in many ways. Being a new Mom and in the process of formulating, challenging and re-writing everything I have believed about motherhood and family life, hooks completes many of the thoughts I have been thinking but too afraid to say. I appreicate her discussions about folks providing material security for their families but not nurturing the emotional. This situation has been something I have had to confront about about my own life, come to terms with and decide how I will "provide" for my son. In many ways its a painful journey, especially when having to challenge familial behaviors that have been passed on for generations, but reading Salvation has helped me through the process and gave me the courage to see that what I decided to do as a Mom was not wrong. And that as children we can ask for more from our parents beyond material. Its such a basic concept, but somewhere along the way, I think our society repressed the need to nourish our souls.
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love is what we really need,
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This review is from: Salvation (Paperback)
This is one of the most thought-provoking books I have read in a while. Though I purchased this book a few years ago, I only recently picked it up to read. And what a read it was....bell hooks brilliantly explores and exposes many of the fundamental causes at the root of our society's, particularly the black community's, moral decay and self-deformation. Though written for and to African-Americans, hooks does not exclude non-African-Americans from the "call" to embrace and build a love ethic. She has certainly done her research and her book has encouraged me to do more of my own. I enjoyed this book from beginning to end and particularly enjoyed the way she ended with a chapter entitled "love justice". I believe love is the most transformative power we have and in this book bell hooks tells us how and why.
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hooks calls it as it is...,
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This review is from: Salvation: Black People and Love (Hardcover)
Since I "discovered" bell hooks in college (sound familar?) I continually find myself enaged and impressed with her writing style, view poing, un-embellished intellectual discourse, and use of common language to put voice to some difficult and sensitive topics. hooks is a careful observer, who manages to avoid pointing fingers and "taking sides," instead focusing on the way systems -- not individuals -- create situations by which we are all trapped in roles. Salvation is no different. I found it a thorough and thought provoking exploration of the notiton of love in a historically fractured community. As a black woman, it would have been easy to fall into who's *fault* it is that love is an endangered species in black culture. I've read the blame of black men, other black women, white men, mammas, stereotypes ect...but what hooks does differently, and with the gentle grace of an explorer trying to understand without categorically defineing a large topic, is simply examine. she offers up theory, evidence and most of all a solution and a call to action for us ALL to affect the way love exists in black community. What Salvation leaves is an uplifiting message that while we come from the fractures and fissures left by forced relocation, slavery and dehumanization, love is not an impossibility or a fairytale, but a real necessity in our lives. I also appreciated how hooks addressed not just issues of romantic love but parental affection and the need of a "love ethic" within the black community that will be our salvation.
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