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- NAME: bell hooks
- OCCUPATION: Scholar, Academic Author, Journalist
- BIRTH DATE: September 25, 1952 (Age: 60)
- EDUCATION: Stanford University, University of Wisconsin, University of California, Santa Cruz
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
- Originally: Gloria Jean Watkins
- ZODIAC SIGN: Libra
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Bell hooks is an American scholar whose best known work focuses on perceptions of black women in the United States.
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Bell hooks is an American scholar, born in Kentucky, whose best known work focuses on perceptions of black women in the United States. Following a childhood in the segregated South hooks became a successful writer and professor, taking the name of her great-grandmother and using lowercase to focus attention on her work.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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