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“When those of us in the academy who are working class or from working-class backgrounds share our perspectives, we subvert the tendency to focus only on the thoughts, attitudes, and experiences of those who are materially privileged.”
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“Only as a woman did I begin to think about these black people in relation to language, to think about their trauma as they were compelled to witness their language rendered meaningless with a colonizing European culture, where voices deemed foreign could not be spoken, were outlawed tongues, renegade speech.”
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“Yet it was only as I began to interrogate my fear of "power" —he way that fear was related to my own class background where I had so often seen those with class power coerce, abuse, and dominate those without.”
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“What I'm here for is to work with the material, and to work with it the best way that I can. And in doing that I don't have to be fearful about my grade, because if I am working the best I can with this material, I know it's going to be reflected in my grade.”
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“All too often, students from nonmaterially privileged backgrounds assume a position of passivity—they be have as victims, as though they can only be acted upon against their will. Ultimately, they end up feeling they can only reject or accept the norms imposed upon them. This either/or often sets them up for disappointment and failure.”
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
― Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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