Wednesday, April 5th is "bell hooks day" on the UT campus. bell hooks is the author of 31 books, including memoir, poetry, culture criticism, feminist essays, film criticism, and children's books. She will hold an informal discussion at the Black Cultural Center from 4-5 pm (seating is limited); and will give a talk at 7 p.m. at the UC auditorium. Reception and booksigning to follow in the UC Hermitage Room from 8-9 pm.
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Autobiographical
Bone Black : memories of girlhood / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library E185.97.H77 A3 1996

Wounds of passion : a writing life / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library E185.97.H77 A3 1999
Sequel to: Bone Black.

Feminism
Ain't I a woman: Black women and feminism / by Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library E185.86 .H68

Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library HQ1190 .H67 2000

Feminist theory from margin to center / Bell Hooks.
Hodges Library HQ1426 .H675 1984

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I don't know how many Chinese actually ever bought a copy of Mao's Little Red Book, but U.S. embassy officials in China told me that 2 million copies of the Chinese-language edition of the [World Trade Organization] rule book were sold in the weeks immediately after China signed on to the WTO.

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"I've taken a lot of American people to Dalian, and they are amazed at how fast the China economy is growing in this high-tech area," said Win Liu, director of the U.S./EU projects for DHC, one of Dalian's biggest homegrown software firms, which has expanded from thirty to twelve hundred employees in six years. "Americans don't realize the challenge to the extent that they should."

Every new product -- from software to widgets -- goes through a cycle that begins with basic research, then applied research, then incubation, then development, then testing, then manufacturing, then deployment, then support, then continuation engineering in order to add improvements. Each of these phases is specialized and unique, and neither India nor China nor Russia has a critical mass of talent that can handle the whole product cycle for a big American multinational. But these countries are steadily developing their research and development capabilities to handle more and more of these phases. As that continues, we really will see the beginning of what Satyam Cherukuri, of Sarnoff, an American research and development firm, has called "the globalization of innovation" and an end to the old model of a single American or European multinational handling all the elements of the development product cycle from its own resources. More and more American and European companies are outsourcing significant research and development tasks to India, Russia, and China.

I spent an evening at the Indian-owned "24/7 Customer" call center in Bangalore . . .

When you look around at 24/7's call center, you see that all the computers are running Microsoft Windows. The chips are designed by Intel. The phones are from Lucent. The air-conditioning is by Carrier, and even the bottled water is by Coke. In addition, 90 percent of the shares in 24/7 are owned by U.S investors. This explains why, although the United States has lost some service jobs to India in recent years, total exports from American-based companies -- merchandise and services -- to India have grown from $2.5 billion in 1990 to $5 billion in 2003. So even with the outsourcing of some service jobs from the United States to India, India's growing economy is creating a demand for many more American goods and services.

What goes around, comes around.