Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

by bell hooks

Book Overview

Hooks explores how black women's emotional growth and development is affected by daily assaults of racism and sexism. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138821683
• ISBN13: 9781138821682
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

I really enjoyed this book

I enjoyed everything about this book. Bell Hooks is definitely an author I want to become familiar with. The only issue I had is the copy I received was missing chapter 13.

Sisters of the yam

bell hooks makes you think! which is a hard process to doSisters & brothers should read this material-there is no color barrier here but provoking thinking material.

hooks' writes with honesty and courage!

I loved this book. I think every African American woman should read this book at least once a year, as an annual celebration of self. hooks is reflective and honest. It is also a good reference for mental health therapists working with African American women.

A Must for all Black Women

This book is truly inspiring. It is honest and forthright about the problems of black women the world over. It should be a recommended text for women's studies and certainly for young women today who have never experienced the pain of abuse. I found the experience of reading this book very inspiring, at times painful but always hopeful.

Sisters of the Yam renews the sister soul

This book has altered my thought process in ways I never thought possible. bell hooks has spoken with clear and simple words about black women and our individual and collective need to self-recover--from racism, sexism, of course--but also from our own (often) self-imposed 'isms carried from childhood. She's brutally honest in a book that sits unmoved from my bed-stand. A recommended read for black women. Period. Regardless of background and circumstance. A must read for those on the never-ending journey of self-introspection that eventually encourages self-recovery.

A necessary addition to your personal library

I found Sisters of the Yam politically, spiritually and mentally satisfying in it's analysis of the forces that cause African-American Women to suffer depressive and other mentally draining conditions. Not only did bell hooks outline the conditions that cause these symptoms, but she offered solutions to overcome them as well. Sisters of the Yam is well worth reading if you are a sister trying to heal herself and move on with life rather than dwelling on past injustices.