![]() ![]() In 1983, she completed her doctorate in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writing her dissertation on author Toni Morrison. She then got her master’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976, and spent several years teaching and writing. During her time as an undergrad at Stanford, bell hooks wrote ain’t i a woman: black women and feminism. hooks attended Stanford University, where she graduated with a degree in English in 1973. ![]() She describes the great adversities she faced when making the transition to an integrated school, where teachers and students were predominantly white. hooks’ was educated in racially segregated public schools, later writing that this is where she experienced education as the practice of freedom. bell hooks is her pen name she adopted her maternal great-grandmother’s name and styles it in lowercase letters because she wants readers to focus on her ideas, not her personality. Bell hooks was born as Gloria Jean Watkins on Septemin Hopkinsville, Kentucky. ![]()
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