Contents

		Series Editor’s Introduction ix MICHAEL APPLE
		Acknowledgments xiii
		Introduction 1 MARIA DEL GUADALUPE DAVIDSON AND GEORGE YANCY
I  Critical Pedagogy and Praxis 15
1		Borderlines: bell hooks and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Change 17 NATHALIA E. JARAMILLO AND PETER MCLAREN
2		Engaging Whiteness and the Practice of Freedom: The Creation of Subversive Academic Spaces 34 GEORGE YANCY
3		Teaching to Transgress: Deconstructing Normalcy and Resignifying the Marked Body 55 CINDY LACOM AND SUSAN HADLEY
4		bell hooks, White Supremacy, and the Academy 68 TIM DAVIDSON AND JEANETTE R. DAVIDSON
5		Engaging bell hooks: How Teacher Educators Can Work to Sustain Themselves and Their Work 82 GRETCHEN GIVENS GENERETT
6		bell hooks’s Children’s Literature: Writing to Transform the World at Its Root 95 CARME MANUEL
II  The Dynamics of Race and Gender 109
7		Talking Back: bell hooks, Feminism, and Philosophy 111 DONNA-DALE L. MARCANO
8		bell hooks and the Move from Marginalized Other to Radical Black Subject 121 MARIA DEL GUADALUPE DAVIDSON
9		The Ethics of Blackness: bell hooks’s Postmodern Blackness and the Imperative of Liberation 132 CLEVIS HEADLEY
10		The Specter of Race: bell hooks, Deconstruction, and Revolutionary Blackness 156 ARNOLD FARR
III  Spirituality and Love 165
11		Love Matters: bell hooks on Political Resistance and Change 167 KATHY GLASS
12		Love, Politics, and Ethics in the Postmodern Feminist Work of bell hooks and Julia Kristeva 186 MARILYN EDELSTEIN
13		“Revolutionary Interdependence”: bell hooks’s Ethic of Love as a Basis for a Feminist Liberation Theology of the Neighbor 202 NANCY E. NIENHUIS
14		Toward a Love Ethic: Love and Spirituality in bell hooks’s Writing 218 SUSANA VEGA-GONZÁLEZ
		Contributors 229
		Index 235