Theorist
bell hooks
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Details
- Nationality
- American
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Notes
[DRAFT] American feminist and cultural theorist (Gloria Jean Watkins). Her essay 'Homeplace: A Site of Resistance' frames the Black home as a site of dignity and resistance, and 'choosing the margin' reclaims marginal space as a location of radical openness.
Connections
- proposed Homeplace (a site of resistance)
Sources
- bell hooks. Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. South End Press, 1990.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 17 of 22
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "bell hooks." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/bell-hooks/. Accessed July 17, 2026.