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 in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery,relationships and marriage in Black lifethe prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leadersthe liberation movements of the 1950s’60sand ’70sor hip-hop and gangsta rap culturehooks lets us know what love’s got to do with it. Salvation is work that helps us heal — and shows us how to create beloved American communities.