{"id":1280,"date":"2025-02-10T17:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:35:26","slug":"44-24-killing-rage-bell-hooks-on-feminism-race-violence-and-dealing-with-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"#44-24 Killing Rage: bell hooks &#8230; on feminism, race, violence and dealing with rage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Renowned cultural critic and feminist theorist bell hooks gave the keynote address at the 12th annual conference of the Texas Council on Family Violence on October 13, 1993.<br>She had just\u00a0published\u00a0her book titled\u00a0<em>Sisters of the Yam: Black women and self-recovery<\/em>, and she was working on the book to be titled\u00a0<em>Killing Rage: Ending Racism<\/em>\u00a0(1995). Her talk, full of personal anecdotes, analyzes\u00a0connections among racism, sexism, rage, and violence, both in\u00a0media and in life. She states that we cannot stop violence without confronting the belief that violence is normal and\u00a0&#8211;<br>\u00a0quote:\u00a0interrogating the violence in ourselves.\u00a0 \u00a0This reprise of that talk includes a tribute added upon her death in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured Speaker:\u00a0bell hooks\u00a0grew up in a small Black community in Kentucky. She would teach\u00a0at many universities in fields including African American studies, Women\u2019s Studies, and Literature. She published\u00a0more than\u00a030 books on race, culture, feminism, and education. Her most famous book is\u00a0<em>Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center<\/em>\u00a0(1984).\u00a0In 2004, she chose to return to Kentucky, where she received tenure at Berea College.\u00a0 That is where she donated her papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits:&nbsp;Recorded and edited by Frieda Werden. Talk recorded by permission of the Texas Council on Family Violence, 1993.&nbsp;Photo courtesy of bell hooks Fan Page on Facebook:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bellhooksfans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bellhooksfans\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-44-24bellhooks-28_50-128kbps.mp3\">http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-44-24bellhooks-28_50-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned cultural critic and feminist theorist bell hooks gave the keynote address at the 12th annual conference of the Texas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,6,17,159,39,10,195,446,27,32,290,36,62,60,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-archive","category-arts-and-culture","category-education","category-family","category-feminism","category-arts-and-culture-film","category-free-speech","category-healing-health","category-health","category-health-mental-health","category-peace-nonviolence","category-politics","category-racism","category-society-and-culture","category-arts-and-culture-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}