Breaking Bread

<p>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. </p> <p>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.</p>