Over twenty years ago, bell hooks began generating scholarship that helped to make colleges and universities places where ideas and social commitment can exist alongside each other. This essay collection aims principally to show how the practical examples manifested in hooks’ work have been widely registered in a range of cultural contexts. The editors of this collection invite essays that address any aspect of the many themes and genres that demonstrate hooks’ influence: Self-Help, Public Intellectualism, Black Feminism, Black People and Love, Children’s Stories, Pedagogy, Race and Popular Culture, Race and Visual Art, Black Masculinity, Sexuality, Sociology and Race, Politics and Race, Economics and Race, and Criminology. Please e-mail abstracts between 500 and 750 words to Professor Sika Alaine Dagbovie (sdagbovi@fau.edu) or Professor Nghana Lewis (nlewis2@tulane.edu) by August 15, 2006.

Professor Dagbovie is Assistant Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University
Professor Lewis is Assistant Professor of English and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University