Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness

All About Love author bell hooks and other innovative Black thinkers explore ‘coolness’ within Black culture, in this 10th anniversary edition of Rebecca Walker’s visonary essay collection.

“[This] slim anthology gives itself a formidable task: pinning down the elusive definitions of ‘Black Cool,’ an aesthetic and a philosophy that echoes across the African diaspora.” —The Atlantic

Originally published in 2012, this collection of illuminating essays exploring the ineffable and protean aesthet...