Bell hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins , better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name bell hooks is derived from that of her maternal greatgrandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.
Hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky to a workingclass family. Her father, Veodis Watkins, was a custodian and her mother, Rosa Bell Watkins, was a homemaker. She had five sisters and one brother. An avid reader, she was educated in racially segregated public schools, and wrote of great adversities when making the transition to an integrated school, where teachers and students were predominantly white.
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