Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Introduction-Chapter 5

Reading Check

1. Black women (Introduction)

2. The banking model of education (Chapter 1)

3. Ken (Chapter 2)

4. Oberlin (Chapter 3)

5. Gloria Watkins (Chapter 4)

6. The patriarchy / patriarchal practices (Chapter 5)

Short Answer

1. After Brown v. Board of Education, schools were desegregated, and hooks was bussed to a predominantly white school where the racist atmosphere took the joy out of education for hooks. (Introduction)

2. Professors can share personal experiences and link these to the material being discussed. (Chapter 1)

3. People who have benefitted from the current racial power structure are afraid to lose power, and they have trouble imagining a truly equal society: they fear that one power structure will simply be replaced by another, and the new one will be less beneficial to them than the current one. (Chapter 2)

4. She felt that the professors were unable to approach works by non-majority authors with the same open-minded respect they showed toward works already in the canon.  (Chapter 3)

5. She acknowledges that there is sexism in his work, but she says that this does not mean none of Friere’s ideas have value—and in any case, she identifies more with the peasants he writes about than she does with white feminists.