![]() ![]() When schools were integrated, hooks was forced to leave her school and the teachers she loved and was bussed to a white school. They showed her how the classroom was a transgressive space to work toward freedom. ![]() Her black teachers, often female, nurtured and loved her, but they also pushed her to think critically. In her segregated schools, however, she found hope. Raised in the rural, segregated South, hooks saw how patriarchy established her father and many of the black men in her community into positions of power, while black women faced oppression. ![]() Throughout the book, hooks uses her personal experiences as a student and teacher to show how students can become marginalized and silenced in the classroom. In this collection of essays, the focus is on the classroom and the power of education to transgress boundaries that often alienate students. ![]()
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