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In Homegrown cultural critics Bell Hooks and Amalia MesaBains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media Hooks and MesaBains invite listeners to reexamine and confront the polarizing mainstream discourse about BlackLatino relationships that is too often negative in its emphasis on political splits between people of color A work of activism through dialogue Homegrown is a declaration of solidarity that rings true even ten years after its first publication

This new edition includes a new afterword in which MesaBains reflects on the changes conflicts and criticisms of the last decade