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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successful future. The first chapter of Bell Hook’s book “Feminism Is For Everyone” is simple‚ a definition of a topic she feels so strongly about. Feminism is for everyone Hook encourages as she makes her mark on the worlds stage with her second book. “Simply put feminism is a movement to end sexism‚ sexist exploitation‚ and oppression.”‚ Hook wrote in the first sentence of her book. Feminism is the change the world needs to be able to evolve and learn‚ Hook pushes and encourages throughout the read
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Bell Hooks wishes to express the feminist perspective about masculinity‚ and she wrote Be Boy Buzz about loving being a boy during her involvement. A question of masculinity comes into play today. While in a thrift store‚ Bell Hooks saw a George Bush quote talking about love and community and how we must work together for a better good. Bell Hooks believes that men can change and move away from patriarchy. Harry Brod believes the challenge is not getting men to change but rather make men aware of
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significance of the "Teaching to Transgress" passage hints at dark undertones using pathos‚ imagery‚ the first-person point-of-view. Bell Hooks describes her loss of love for school when realizing that "For black children‚ education was no longer about the practice of freedom" since they "...were mainly taught by white teachers whose lessons reinforced racist"(114). Hooks goes on to say that "that shift from beloved‚ all-black schools to white schools where black students were always seen as interlopers
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Gloria Watkins under the pen name bell hooks (1994)‚ addresses how poverty is presented through society and criticizes the misrepresentations made by the higher class and media. Watkins (1994) emphasizes her argument that the dehumanizing form of representing the poor is the root cause low self-esteem among poor people. Poverty is portrayed through a variety systems of representation that have come to create misconceptions about this issue. Throughout the article‚ hooks (1994) was able to present her
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at Stanford bell hooks experienced things that only an education can provide‚ from different social status to keeping ties with her community and her heritage even though she went far in her studies. Education changed bell hooks life in many ways from the experiences at Stanford having her values collide with others values‚ being introduced to the intellectual circles and having others try to press upon her their beliefs . By going to Stanford to continue her education‚ bell hooks experienced
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“Teaching is a performative act”‚ and it is for that reason that it is crucial that teachers teach beyond the textbook (hooks‚ 11) . The textbook merely supplies the student with information‚ data‚ and serve the core curriculum agenda that has been set up by the state or district. The teacher’s job is not to reiterate what the textbook says‚ although there is a responsibility upon the teacher to ensure that students understand the assigned readings‚ but the teacher’s job is to relate the text to
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bell hooks is the pen name of feminist‚ American author‚ and social activist Gloria Jean Watkins. She stylized her name by using small cased letters (ex…bell hooks)‚ and it is an eye catching monogram derived from her maternal grandmother Bell Blair Hooks. “She put the name in lowercase letters “to distinguish [herself from] her grandmother. She said that her unconventional lowercasing of her name signifies what is most important is her works: the “substance of books‚ not who I am” (bell; 2). Besides
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perspective by elucidating how these approaches become virtually unnoticed due to their natural reoccurrence over time. Author bell hooks criticizes standard education not as essentially being lost but as the language being lost within the knowledge of education. The language is not literally lost but lost figuratively the way it is being taught and presented. bell hooks examines a situation in her class room‚ “In a classroom setting‚ I encourage students to use their first language and translate
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We live in a world where there are numerous discriminations: race‚ religion‚ sex‚ age‚ or sexual orientation. bell hooks has eloquently explained multiple reasons why the black population is discriminated against in an educational setting‚ “...most white folks are rarely‚ if ever‚ in a situation where they must listen to black women lecture to them.” (hooks‚ 31) Daily we hear about the killings of transsexual men and women‚ as well as multiple examinations talking about men who receive more money
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