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

5.0

Required reading for anti-racist and intersectional feminism. bell hooks, as incisive and bold as ever, tells the history of Black women in the United States from slavery through Jim Crow, specifically looking at the ways in which white men, white women, and Black men have all contributed to the oppression of Black women. She details the acts of violence and oppression in scathing detail and the acts of resistance just as precisely. Her research is thorough and her conclusions are well-founded and cut to the core of the issue to demand change. You cannot walk away from this book unbothered, unchanged, un-emboldened.