Education that merely responds to racism ceases to be counter-hegemonic.

Evidence

When we entered racist, desegregated, white schools we left a world where teachers believed that to educate black children rightly would require a political commitment. Now, we were mainly taught by white teachers whose lessons reinforced racist stereotypes. For black children, education was no longer about the practice of freedom. Realizing this, I lost my love of school. The classroom was no longer a place of pleasure or ecstasy. School was still a political place, since we were always having to counter white racist assumptions that we were genetically inferior, never as capable as white peers, even unable to learn. Yet, the politics were no longer counter-hegemonic. We were always and only responding and reacting to white folks. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 15

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Abolitionism could succeed by keeping racist premises and only changing their implications — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 513; Education is never neutral and either suppresses or liberates communities — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 332; Antiracialism abandons the category of race while leaving racist conditions intact (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Antiracialism abandons the category of race while leaving racist conditions intact #exemplifies (0.77)
• Education is never neutral and either suppresses or liberates communities #expands (0.76) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 332
• Abolitionism could succeed by keeping racist premises and only changing their implications #exemplifies (0.74) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 513