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Teaching bell hooks
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Mar 2020
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One of the books Boke Saisi most enjoys sharing with her students at the University of California at San Diego, is bell hooks’ “Where We Stand: Class Matters.” Saisi is a PhD candidate who contributed a column to Black Agenda Report’s feature, “Books I Teach.” The chapter “Being Rich” is especially useful in showing how “racism and racist caste systems are inherent parts of the capitalist system,” said Saisi.

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