bell hooks was born Gloria Jean Watkins. She is the female counterpart to Cornel West, having authored volumes with him, and in addition to being interested in issues central to the Black community, bell hooks also is interested in women's issues, and particularly is interested in how these issues intersect and how oppression is layered for those suffering from double or triple jeopardy, a condition which describes being oppressed because of multiple categoricals, i.e. race, gender, class, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity. She believes that these idea are so important that she chooses not to capitalize her name, so that attention is drawn to her ideas rather than to her.
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