Salvation: black people and love, paperback/bell hooks

Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions.

Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love.

Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation movements of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, or hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what loves got to do with it.

Salvation is work that helps us heal -- and shows us how to create beloved American communities.