Salvation

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 with the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Intimate and revolutionarySalvation is a gift as provocative as it is healing. Written from a historical and cultural perspectiveSalvation takes an incisive look at the transformative power of love in the lives of African-Americans. Whether talking about the legacy of slaveryrelationshipsand marriage in black lifethe prose and poetry of Martin Luther King Jr.James BaldwinMalcolm Xand Maya Angelouthe liberation movements of the 1950s’60sand ’70ssexual pain or pleasurehip-hop and gangsta rap cultureaddictiongreedor the failure of black leadershiphooks lets us know what love’s got to do with it. Combining the passionate politics of W E. B. DuBois with freshcontemporary insightshooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation’s wounds from a culture of lovelessness. Her writings on love and its inextricable links to raceclassfamilyhistoryand popular culture raise one pivotal question: How can we create beloved American communities? Salvation is bell hooks’s journey to answer this question-an offering for everyone who cares about the souls of black folk.