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Is JD Vance stealing his book titles from bell hooks?
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Is JD Vance stealing his book titles from bell hooks?

Literary Hub·Brittany Allen·about 2 months ago
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As the internet noted earlier this week—and Claire Guinan at Jezebel observed yesterday—Vice President JD Vance may have a plagiarism problem. (Among his many others.) On Tuesday, the man with the most hillbilly blood on his hands announced a new memoir. As Guinan has it, the “come-to-Jesus book,” Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, will hit stores this June. Picking up where his problematic Elegy left off, this autobiography details “Vance’s journey ‘back to faith'” and touches on his recent “conversion to Catholicism.” Sure, fine. But as sleuths have noted, there is publishing precedent for a Communion with a colon attached. bell hooks, the late Black feminist theorist, published Communion: The Search for Female Love in 2002. A characteristically warm and conversational work that marries theory and self-reflection, the guide was billed as a crucial intervention on its release.…

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