bell hooks
Born: 1952-09-25 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, USA
Died: 2021-12-15
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- Becoming bell hooks as Self
2018
- Hillbilly as Self
2004
2002
- BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
1998
1997
- bell hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation as Self
- My Feminism as Self
1995
- Black Is… Black Ain’t as Self