{"product_id":"where-we-stand-9780415929134","title":"Where We Stand","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, \u003cem\u003eWhere We Stand\u003c\/em\u003e is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWhere We Stand: Class Matters\u003c\/em\u003e is a statement of self, reaching through all of those selves who think properly on class, to embrace a society transformed by redistribution...hooks moves analytically to grasp what so many theorists of our time have evaded.\" -- \u003cem\u003eLiterary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eReview of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"hooks's story is both inspiration and cautionary tale.\" -- Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"hooks delves into the deep divisions of class, socio-economics, and race that are too often lightly stepped around and avoided and brings them out, lays them on the table, and helps us bravely through the pieces and make sense of them.\" -- Black Issues Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"hooks is often refreshing simply because she says so clearly what she really means. No academic rigamarole or mystical jargon for her. The good news is that such occasionally awkward phrases...are sometimes preludes to her seamless depictions of the complex cultural nuances that make up contemporary American culture.\" -- \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This incisive examination of class is rooted in cultural critic hooks personal experience, political commitment, and social theory, which links gender, race, and class. Starting with her working-class childhood, the author illustrates how everyday interactions reproduce class hierarchy while simultaneously denying its existence. Because she sustains an unflinching gaze on both her own personal motivations and on persistent social structures, hooks provides a valuable framework for discussing such difficult and unexplored areas as greed, the quest to live simply, the ruling-class co-optation of youth through popular culture, and real estate speculation as an instrument of racism.\" -- \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]n engaging, thought-provoking memoir.\" -- \u003cem\u003eBoston\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eHerald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In often-evocative prose, bell hooks utilizes her own life to quickly 'get to the heart of matters,' developing insights and pithy truths that resonate long after her books are put down. \u003cem\u003eWhere We Stand\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply felt rendering that engages us through descriptions of her childhood and her process of coming to class awareness.\" -- NSWA Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eintroduction Class Matters; Chapter 1 Making the Personal Political: Class in the Family; Chapter 2 Coming to Class Consciousness; Chapter 3 Class and the Politics of Living Simply; Chapter 4 Money Hungry; Chapter 5 The Politics of Greed; Chapter 6 Being Rich; Chapter 7 The Me-Me Class: The Young and the Ruthless; Chapter 8 Class and Race: The New Black Elite; Chapter 9 Feminism and Class Power; Chapter 10 White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibility; Chapter 11 Solidarity with the Poor; Chapter 12 Class Claims: Real Estate Racism; Chapter 13 Crossing Class Boundaries; Chapter 14 Living without Class Hierarchy;","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018216276311,"sku":"9780415929134","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415929134.jpg?v=1750776046","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/where-we-stand-9780415929134","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}