Both identity politics and anti-experience purism alike can coerce and exclude students
Evidence
Therefore, biases imposed by essentialist standpoints or identity politics, alongside those perspectives that insist that experience has no place in the classroom (both stances can create an atmosphere of coercion and exclusion), must be interrogated by pedagogical practices. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 172
Categorization
- XREF: Pairs with hooks’s characteristic two-sided critique — here equating the coercion of essentialist identity claims with the exclusion of views that ban experience. — connects to: Identity construction is an exercise of power through exclusion — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 371; Identity politics can trade one master narrative for another rather than escape them; Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 293 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Denying students’ experience makes them insist more fiercely on its special authority
#corroborates(0.88) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 175 - Identity politics can trade one master narrative for another rather than escape them
#corroborates(0.85) - Totalizing critiques of identity threaten marginalized groups who name identity to resist domination
#complicates(0.82) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 162 - Identity construction is an exercise of power through exclusion
#expands(0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 371 - Identity politics in one domain can stabilize oppression in another
#expands(0.77) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 293