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This 4-page paper focuses on Belle Hooks' TEACHING TO TRANSGRESS, specifically Chapters 8 and 9, and discusses them from a Black perspective in the classroom.
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educational system in terms of the fact that most teachers and educators tend to fail students by not being willing to understand the backgrounds and diverse perspective that each student
brings to the classroom. Basically, Hooks accuses the educational establishment overall of power and domination over diversity. In this paper, well examine
two chapters, "Feminist Thinking in the Classroom Right Now (Chapter 8) and "Feminist Scholarship - Black Scholars" (Chapter 9) to attempt to come to a conclusion on the so-called "black
perspective" in the classroom. In Chapter 8, Hooks harkens back to her own experience as a graduate student who taught feminist courses
focusing on Black studies. She notes that, at the time, most womens studies programs were simply not ready to accept any type of focus on race and gender, instead, pretty
much wanting a "catch-all" when it came to feminist studies. At the time, she continued, curriculum that focused on Black studies was considered "suspect," with even the phrase "women of
color" not necessarily being used. Yet ironically enough, she continued, most of the women in her classes in those days were primarily Black - and, as one could understand it,
somewhat skeptical on the idea of "feminist studies" and "feminist thinking," as such studies and thinking tended to overshadow the whole diversity perspective. It has gotten to the point, Hooks
continues, that even these days students question the fact that the feminist movement is more for White women than Black women, and that Blacks, as a whole, tend to be
more "oppressed" than White women ever were. She acknowledges that Black students who end up in a womens study course of some
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