Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice

What are the conditions needed for folks to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," hooks attempts to model the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination. In the spirit of previous classics like Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real, bell hooks, in this brand new collection of essays interrogates contemporary cultural notions of race, gender, and class. From the films Precious and Crash to The Helpand a recent biography of Malcolm X, hooks holds forth on the way race is being talked about in this "post-racial" era.