![]() ![]() ![]() This could also be applicable to any relation between marginalized folks and groups in positions of privilege, so let me invite you to analyze how you have responded to hostility from women, queer folks, poor folks, fat folks, black folks, trans folks as a person in a position of privilege compared to any group listed. I however continue to reflect on the part where she describes hostility from black women as a response to domination or exploitation and how white women respond to this hostility by invalidating it, therefore, installing barriers that prevent solidarity from occurring. I was quite captured by her elaboration on the place of experience in the classroom with full awareness of class, race, and gender dynamics. This book provided me with a lens to analyze thoroughly the academic space I myself as a student engages with especially in an academic institution that claims progressiveness. bell hooks explores pedagogy as a tool for critical consciousness and its limits within conventional academic structures. Just like through many of her books, bell hooks analyses using her experience and in this one as a student in the black segregated schools and the experience as a black student in white schools post-segregation. Teaching to transgress is a book in which bell hooks explores education through the dynamics of race, class, and gender. ![]()
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