Awards & Winners

Bell Hooks

Date of Birth 25-September-1952
Place of Birth Hopkinsville
(Christian County, Kentucky, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Gloria Jean Watkins
Profession Writer, Author, Philosopher, Social activist
Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. She took her nom de plume from her maternal great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, capitalism, and gender and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.

Awards by Bell Hooks

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bell Hooks.

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Children's Happy to be Nappy

1991


American Book Awards
Honored for : Yearning