I was convinced that the emotional and psychological damage couldn’t possibly be worth it. I nearly dropped out of graduate school that first year.
These early lessons in hooks’ life became the container within which her own pedagogical and scholarly works developed. It’s obvious why, for hooks, the classroom was a site of political action and engagement. She wrote, “For Black folks teaching - educating - was fundamentally political because it was rooted in antiracist struggle.” For hooks, the radical political exemplars in her life were the Black women who, at her segregated schools, taught her “a revolutionary pedagogy of resistance.” Her teachers had essentially used their classrooms to build political power amongst young people. In the book, hooks relied on her experiences as a young Black girl growing up in what she referred to as the “apartheid South” to outline the ways that teaching is inherently political for Black people.
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