Sister Glo, I knew you will be bussing head for your name sake. The good thing is that she has attained immortality as a productive scholar. Millions of years to come, people will still be citing her and insisting that bell hooks says this or that as if she is still with us. The avoidance of African scholars is common among the African diaspora and I saw this as a gap to be filled by future generations. My question remains unanswered - why neglect the sources from home even when they support your case? As I said, I am a big fan of bell hooks but I have been scratching my head about this apparently deliberate omission in her work and that of Cornel West who agreed that I have a point.
Biko
On Friday, 17 December 2021, 12:39:38 GMT-5, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
By the way , Biko, this is not the appropriate
time for this kind of discussion. Is that
how you treat a sister who passed away -
castigating her over citations? Why not focus
on her strengths at this delicate time?
Your eulogy: "Sorry about her passing
but she did not quote this one or that one."
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association
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Huge loss. I nearly asked her this question but the queue to ask questions was long. I managed to ask the same question to Cornel West during his Democracy Matters tour, having identified the gap in both of their knowledge about Africa in their joint text, Breaking Bread. The question is why they avoid citing African authorities when such references would support some of their arguments. For instance, Cornel West quotes jazz musicians alongside Russian novelists, American and Greek philosophers on something like democracy whereas Greek city states were not democratic - they were monarchical enslaving societies where women and children were not citizens just like in the history of America. Surely, people of African descent have better lessons in the history and novels of direct democracies in non-monarchical African societies than from societies with the slavery mode of production when it comes to advancing democracy. Being a feminist theorist of African descent, why did bell hooks ignore the work of African feminists and womanists who could have supported many of her theories and thereby made her work more relevant to Africana Studies? I enjoy learning from and citing hooks but a prominent African female intellectual asked me this question; that woman you are citing all the time, has she ever cited you or the African women writing similar stuff? If not why not? Cornel West answered me the question by promising to cite more African sources in the future, but he is yet to do so o. Why now?
Biko
On Thursday, 16 December 2021, 13:54:07 GMT-5, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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Subject: bell hooks (1952 - 2021)
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bell hooks
Bio
wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
essence
https://www.essence.com/news/bell-hooks-obituary/
Legacy
bell hooks Center Berea College
https://www.berea.edu/bhc/pride/
Talks
CSPAN
https://www.c-span.org/person/?41634/bellhooks
University of Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDRP2F4JXE0
Conversations
with Beverly Guf-Sheftall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5ktcC3UEk
with Gloria Steinem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzOFvfWRn4
with Cornel West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LL0k6_pPKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRSk4hlrtI
with Kevin Powell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoXNzyK70Bk
with Laverne Cox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oMmZIJijgY
Interviews
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