ABSTRACT

In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about Black-Latino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color. A work of activism through dialogue, Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication.

This new edition includes a new afterword, in which Mesa-Bains reflects on the changes, conflicts, and criticisms of the last decade.

chapter 1|22 pages

Family

chapter 2|18 pages

Feminist Iconography

chapter 3|16 pages

Resistance Pedagogies

chapter 4|13 pages

Public Culture

chapter 5|22 pages

Multiculturalism

chapter 6|9 pages

Home

chapter 7|11 pages

Memory

chapter 8|6 pages

Altars

chapter 9|9 pages

Day of the Dead