Breaking bread: insurgent Black intellectual life

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"In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life where people come together to give themselves, to nurture life, to renew their spirits, sustain their hopes, and to make a lived politics of revolutionary struggle an ongoing practice. This 25th anniversary edition continues the dialogue with 'In Solidarity,' their 2016 conversation at the bell hooks Institute on racism, politics, popular culture, and the contemporary Black experience"--Provided by publisher. Preface to the New Edition Introduction1. Black Men and Women: partnership in the 1990s2. Introduction to Cornel West3. Cornel West interviewed by bell hooks4. Introduction to bell hooks5. bell hooks interviewed by Cornel West6. Dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West7. Dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West8. The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual9. Black Women IntellectualsBibliography