1. PREFACE: to know where I’m going
2. kentucky is my fate
3. mountains: consumed by suffering
4. touching the earth
5. reclamation and reconciliation
6. to be whole and holy
7. again – segregation must end
8. representations of whiteness in the black imagination
9. drive through tobacco
10. earthbound: on solid ground
11. an aesthetics of blackness: strange and oppositional
12. inspired eccentricity
13. a place where the soul can rest
14. aesthetic inheritances: history worked by hand
15. piecing it all together
16. on being a kentucky writer
17. returning to the wound
18. healing talk: a conversation
19. take back the night – remake the present
20. habits of the heart
21. a community of care
Biography
bell hooks is a writer and critic who has taught most recently at Berea College in Kentucky, where she is Distinguished Professor in Residence. Among her many books are the feminist classic Ain't I A Woman, the dialogue (with Cornel West) Breaking Bread, the children's books Happy to Be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz, the memoir Bone Black (Holt), and the general interest titles All About Love, Rock My Soul, and Communion. She has published six titles with Routledge: We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real.
