A reread- I was first exposed to this exquisite work in undergrad and it's amazing how much my own knowledge and thus my understanding of hooks' writings has changed. This ever powerful, intimately original, intersectional analysis of race and gender relations is so popular for a reason. hooks brings forth not a new, but increasingly supported understanding of the oppression and the work of Black women. hooks critiques one dimensional, racist perspectives on womanhood and feminism. She brings forth the history of black women being degraded by white men, white women, and black men. She considers ability, sexuality, class, and education to illustrate the functions of the cisheteropatriarchy. She also tells stories of Black joy and success, because throughout a several centuries of Black abuse, there was also hope and community and there continues to be efforts of change. This book isn't the most accessible, and yet everyone, especially white women, must engage with it.