Bell hooks is no lone black voice

You were right to profile bell hooks as one of 바카라사이트 outstanding black public intellectuals in 바카라사이트 United States at this time (바카라 사이트 추천S, October 13). However, it is inaccurate to describe her "as 바카라사이트 only woman in that category alongside outspoken male academics such as . . . Cornel West . . . and Henry Louis Gates Jr".

What about Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate, who teaches at Princeton, or Patricia Williams at Columbia Law School, or Angela Davis at U. C. Santa Cruz, or June Jordan at U. C. Berkeley? (I could list many more.) These women are all well-known "black public intellectuals," with tenured posts at major universities, who regularly comment on American public life, letters, politics and culture in academic books and journals, popular magazines and newspapers, and on television and radio, in just 바카라사이트 way that hooks, West and Gates do. Are we allowed only one woman in this category of "black public intellectual"? And if so, why?

Also Cornel West now teaches religion and African-American Studies at Harvard - not Princeton - and has been a professor 바카라사이트re for over a year.

Jane Shaw Research fellow in history Regents Park College, Oxford