Bell Hooks, otherwise known as Gloria Jean Watkins, is an American author, feminist and social activist. Her writings focused on race, class and gender and their ability to produce oppression and domination. Bell focuses on adressing race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism. She focused a lot of her work on racism and sexism towards black women, something she had seem far too often and had enough of. Racism and segregation was something Bell also discussed. She grew up in Kentucky and went to a segregated school for much of her life, eventually going to an integrated one, where the majority was white people. She had experience racism first hand and she wanted to educate people that it wasn't the right thing to do, as well as the right way to think.
Her will to educate people on social justice and attempt to make the world a better place shows how influential and positive Bell Hooks is. Her most famous book, Aint I A Woman, is an inspiring book which discusses the education system, media roles, sexism, racism and other issues black woman face, and many other important issues people should be educated about. She has taught at multiple colleges, including the ivy league school, Yale University. She is a very educated and influential woman who has for years just tried to educate people on racism and other prejudices that go on in the world, specifically black woman.
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