Gloria Jean Watkins, known as bell hooks, is remembered for exploring how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined, which helped shape academic and popular debates over the past 40 years.
Her feminism focused on how racism, sexism and economic disparity reinforced each otherShe shaped academic and popular debates over 40 years
She drew upon professional scholarship and personal history as she wrote dozens of books that influenced peers and helped provide a framework for debates about race, class and feminism. She taught at various schools, including Yale University, Oberlin College and City College of New York and joined the Berea College faculty in 2004 before founding a centre in her name, where "many and varied expressions of difference can thrive".
In the 1970s and at the height of second-wave feminism, hooks — "this bold young black female from rural Kentucky" as she described herself — felt apart from the movement and its "white and female comrades".
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