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Article: Salvation: Black People and Love
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- March 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Cox, Matthews & Associates, Inc. Mar/Apr 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Salvation: Black People and Love
Morrow, Willim & Co., January 2001 $22.00, ISBN 0-060-18494-9
From the book's title, it might appear to the uninitiated that bell hooks has added to the never-ending stream of self-help books on inner healing or religious transformation. To some extent she has, but this is more of a society-help book -- a manual for fixing our culture. What is missing in modern humanity, hooks argues, is love of self that is not narcissistic, and a love of each other, and of all humankind, that seeks a social good beyond ethnic, economic, political or personal self-interest.
As an unabashedly feminist cultural critic and scholar, she has written 17 books, earning ...