The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies
of the Claremont Colleges

Presents... 

The 20th Anniversary Celebration

of the
Sojourner Truth Lecture Series

Featuring 

bell hooks 

  "Teaching Community"

Bridges Auditorium, Pomona College Campus
Claremont, California
Thursday, October 23, 2003, 7:30pm
(Free and open to the public).

bell hooks, feminist theorist, cultural critic, and writer, is the author of numerous books including  Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Rock My Soul: Black Folk and Self-Esteem; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Art On My Mind: Visual Politics; Sisters of Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery; Black Looks: Race and Representation; Feminism is for Everybody; Salvation: Black People and Love; and Communion: The Female Search for Love. 

Acclaimed as one of the nation’s leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly and named one of Utne’s Reader’s “100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life,” hooks has taught in the English departments of Yale University, Oberlin College, and most recently as a Distinguished Professor of English at City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Dr. hooks received her B.A. from Stanford University, M.A. from University of Wisconsin and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz.  She lectures to audiences around the world in her dedication to helping her readers develop a “critical eye.”