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Sisters of the Yam (2nd Edition)

Black Women and Self-Recovery

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Sisters of the Yam (2nd Edition)

By: Bell Hooks
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
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In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self-actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self-recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of self-healing and the need to be ever vigilant in the struggle for equality, Sisters of the Yam continues to speak to the experience of black womanhood.

©2015 Gloria Watkins (P)2022 Tantor Americas Black & African American Gender Studies Social Sciences United States
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I think everyone should read this book. Its such a wholesome read, especialluy for Black women. It is a self help book, but also educates us in terms of history. hooks addresses a lot of important themes in this book.

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... but especially for Black femmes. The Bible you need for your authentic and holistic self.

Essential reading for everyone

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it really inspired me to do better by myself and my community of black women. I just might start my own sisters of the yam.

illuminating and essential reading for black women

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