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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

 Ain’t I a Woman looks and the position of Black women in American society and tackles the intersection of race, gender and class head on. hooks is feisty, forthright and unapologetic calling out both the (white) women’s rights movement and the Black (male) civil rights movement for the ways they sidelined and ignored Black women. It’s message seems as timely today as it was when hooks penned it 40 years ago. I can’t decide if that means she was precocious and ahead of her time in her intellectual analysis, or if it’s a sad reflection on how much hasn’t changed since the 1970s and 1980s. The reality is probably that both are true. 
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