A professor’s embodied habits can undercut their stated critical politics

Evidence

It’s also really important to acknowledge that professors may attempt to deconstruct traditional biases while sharing that information through body posture, tone, word choice, and so on that perpetuate those very hierarchies and biases they are critiquing. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 264

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Male academics sometimes repress bodily presence out of fear rather than deference — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 251; Professors can teach radical content while enforcing bourgeois classroom decorum — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 358; Professors can adopt progressive theory while reproducing the domination they denounce — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 48 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Professors can espouse liberatory theory while practicing domination in class #expands (0.95)
• Professors can adopt progressive theory while reproducing the domination they denounce #expands (0.92) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 48
• Professors can teach radical content while enforcing bourgeois classroom decorum #exemplifies (0.85) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 358
• Professors are often more enthralled by classroom power than by enlightenment #expands (0.78)
• A scholar’s decades inside a field he critiques shapes the character of its critique. #expands (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 7