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This book left my head spinning. bell hooks is challenging in all the best ways, as always, and this book digs deep into the issues of intersectionality faced by Black women. It also focuses, over large sections of the book, on their relationships with both Black men and white women, and there was a lot there to think about. It was also revelatory because hooks chronicles the origins of a lot of stereotypes of Black women, and most of them have more horrific origins even than what we can often l
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