respect. Bell Hooks‚ a southern black girl from a working-class background in Kentucky‚ who has never rode on a city bus‚ or even an escalator‚ explains her feelings about going away for college in Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education. She took her first plane ride to Stanford University where she received her bachelor’s degree. She examines and challenges intertwined assumptions about race‚ class‚ and academia. She talks about her parents along with her own feelings about leaving home and how
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In "Keeping Close to Home: Class and education"‚ a chapter excerpted from Talking back (1989) by Bell Hook’s‚ suggests that moving on with life by attending college influences individuals to hide or change the values they were raised with. She argues that people should never forget there family background or their past just because they change environments. From her perceptions of some of the students at Stanford‚ she also states that even the "lower class" people have beliefs and values too and
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Keeping Close to Home By Bell Hooks Bell Hooks essay “Keeping Close to Home”‚ describes her struggles after she was accepted at Stanford University to further her self-realization. In this essay Hooks talks about her journey to educate herself and no losing her sense of where she came from as African American woman from a working class background. Hooks parents wanted her to go to a school close to home‚ a non-diverse like Stanford was. They wanted her to go to a school no just close to home
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essay‚ Keeping Close to Home‚ the author‚ Gloria Watkins‚ tries to look back at her growing path to find out what influences her values and identity. Most of the sources are conflicting. The first paradox came from her experience attending college in the city. For a girl growing up in a small town‚ this kept her a far distance‚ both mental and physical‚ from her home as a result of moving away from her family. The most direct impact on her is her parent’s ambivalence toward college education. Although
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Keeping Close To Home “Keeping Close To Home” was written by Bell Hooks. Bell hooks whose original name was Gloria Watkins was born in 1952. Hooks is one of the top leading cultural and educational theorists in America. In education she Hooks has received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. In this essay hooks talk about her journey to educate herself and not losing her sense of where she came from as African-American woman from a working class
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Is Education Equal? The United States provides our society with the undeniable right to learn. The right to higher education is not limited to the middle and upper classes; it allows the less privileged‚ minorities‚ as well as both sexes‚ to receive an equal education. Two arguments which present interesting views on higher education are bell hook’s “Keeping Close to Home” and Adrienne Rich’s “What Does a Woman Need to Know?” Hooks views higher education with
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Evaluation/Summary Oct. 4‚ 2002 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education I decided to evaluate an excerpt from the book The Presence of Others. This selection‚ entitled Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education‚ was written by Bell Hooks‚ and is taken from her book Talking Back‚ published in 1989. Hooks is the author of many other volumes‚ including Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)‚ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994)‚ and Remembered Rapture: The
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deeply intrigued by Bells Hooks writing. Bell Hooks born Gloria Jean Watkins was born September 25‚ 1952 in a black neighborhood in Hopkinsville a small‚ segregated town in rural Kentucky. With her father who worked as a janitor‚ and her mother‚ Rosa Bell Oldham Watkins‚ who worked as a maid in the homes of white families‚ Hooks used her experience of rural living‚ poverty‚ racial segregation‚ and resistance struggle in her works. Hooks wrote in an essay “Keeping Close to Home” from Black Looks and
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Addie Ward In the writings Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Education for the Critical Consciousness Freire suggests a mechanical flaw of education as the “banking approach.” This theory is described as the student being the bank and the teacher making the deposits‚ known as knowledge. The student’s turn into “receptors” and “collectors” of information‚ that has no connection to their lives. In this banking concept the teacher ‘knows’ because he or she has already deposited the knowledge needed
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In the essay "Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education" by Bell Hooks‚ she argues against the statement that "assimilation is the way to gain acceptance for those in power. Seeing from her college experiences and from other examples‚ one can argue that one can survive by staying true to one’s cultural identity. My personal beliefs lead me to support Ms. Hooks in this argument that assimilation alone is the only way to survive. In the beginning on page 60‚ her parents argued that she didn’t need
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