![]() Both were too young: 69 and 71 respectively. This year, bell hooks and Charles Mills died. But these reasons have only been formally acknowledged, at least where I teach, thanks to calls from students, especially those involved in the movement for Black lives and Rhodes Must Fall. The intrinsic reasons to include them have always been good ones. This year, work by both hooks and Mills has been officially added to the introductory syllabus for political theory at Oxford. He was used to these calls being ignored. He wrote an article in the early 1990s urging others to do the same. ![]() Charles had been teaching hooks and other Black feminist theorists for years. ![]() He looked up at the library, shook his head and smiled, unsurprised. I circulated PDFs instead.Ī couple of years later I was walking by the Radcliffe Camera with the philosopher Charles Mills and told him the story. The Bodleian contains upwards of 13 million printed items. ![]() I soon got an email to say there wasn’t a copy of the book in any Oxford library. hooks wasn’t on the official faculty syllabus, but I thought my students should get the chance to engage with her challenge to the liberal white feminists who were. ![]() A few years ago, as a postdoc at Oxford, I added bell hooks’s Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre to the reading list for a political theory course I’d been asked to teach. ![]()
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