{"product_id":"breaking-bread-insurgent-black-intellectual-life-9781138218765","title":"Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 25th anniversary edition continues the dialogue with \"In Solidarity,\" their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture and the contemporary Black experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, \u003cb\u003ebell hooks\u003c\/b\u003e is best known for classic books including\u003ci\u003eFeminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBone Black \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRock My Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBelonging\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003eWe Real Cool\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhere We Stand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTeaching to Transgress\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTeaching Community\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Outlaw Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReel to Real\u003c\/i\u003e.hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has written over 20 books and edited 13, including \u003ci\u003eRace Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrother West: Living and Loving Out Loud\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Black Prophetic Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRadical King\u003c\/i\u003e. Dr. West is a frequent guest on \u003cem\u003eReal Time with Bill Maher\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Colbert Report\u003c\/em\u003e, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50332569043218,"sku":"9781138218765","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d46bea50-4af4-4fd3-aa77-45ac092f5205.jpg?v=1727840107","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/breaking-bread-insurgent-black-intellectual-life-9781138218765","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}