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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black Decorating & Furnishings will the sheer force ofIn childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side,