ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the resistive and restorative scholarship of Black feminist bell hooks, who is of African American and Native American descent. McNeal discusses hooks’ assertion that remembering is a form of activism that facilitates the “political self-recovery of colonized and oppressed peoples” (193). hooks challenges the notion that ideological and systemic white supremacy has obliterated the ancestral memory, cultural traditions, and lived realities of Africans, African Americans, and Native Americans. Instead, she reinforces the embrace of ancestors, recovery of worldviews, sustainability practices, and (re)membering as sites of healing and restoration for these communities while underscoring their historical connections to each other. The chapter ends with an invitation to resist white supremacy and colonialism and to recreate the world by envisioning regenerative and transformative justice practices for historically racially marginalized and oppressed groups.
