bell hooks and Picture Books: Equity in Early Childhood Education

ABSTRACT

bell hooks was a prolific and trailblazing author, poet, feminist, cultural critic, and professor. The author of more than three dozen wide-ranging books, hooks published her first title, the poetry collection And there we wept, in 1978. Her influential book Ain’t I a woman: Black women and feminism followed in 1981. Three years later she wrote Feminist theory: From margin to center, which explored and criticized the feminist movement’s propensity to center and privilege white women’s experiences.

KEYWORDS:

• Equitable
• pedagogy
• bell hooks
• picture books

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