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Akasha Gloria Hull

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in Shreveport, Louisiana, The United States

December 06, 1944

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Akasha Gloria Hull (born December 6, 1944) is a poet, educator, writer, and critic whose work in African-American literature and as a Black feminist activist has helped shape Women’s Studies. As one of the architects of Black Women's Studies, her scholarship and activism has increased the prestige, legitimacy, respect, and popularity of feminism and African-American studies.

Dr. Hull has been a professor of women's studies and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Delaware, and the University of the West Indies, Mona, in Kingston, Jamaica. She has published four books, a monograph, three edited collections, over twenty articles in peer-reviewed professional journals, numerous chapters in a dozen volumes, f ...more

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Average rating: 4.37 · 3,059 ratings · 117 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull (Editor), Patricia Bell-Scott (Editor), Barbara Smith (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 1,785 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology by Barbara Smith (Editor), Donna Allegra (Contributor), Tania Abdulahad (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 924 ratings — published 1983 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones (Editor), Sangodare Akinwale, M. Jacqui Alexander 4.38 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Talk: The New Spirituality of African American Women 4.24 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Healing Heart: Poems 1973-1988 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer: The Poet and His Song (AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 1910-1940) by Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Akasha Gloria Hull (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1920 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If its liberation is not human enough to include the liberation of women it will not be liberation”
― Akasha Gloria Hull, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies

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