Some marginalized students want hierarchy inversion, not genuine disruption

Evidence

Sometimes students who want professors to grapple with class differences often simply desire that individuals from less materially privileged backgrounds be given center stage so that an inversion of hierarchical structures takes place, not a disruption. … Some of these black students rigidly resisted attempts to involve the others in an engaged pedagogy where space is created for everyone. Many of the black students feared that learning new terminology or new perspectives would alienate them from familiar social relations. — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 378

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the either/or trap from loc 363, now applied to students themselves; connects to ch8’s warning that denying student experience provokes its aggressive assertion. — connects to: Staunch-democrat students’ egalitarianism reflected status insecurity, not socialist conviction — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2351; Students internalize class position so deeply they choose lower tracks voluntarily — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1034
• BMF: Not a clean match, but the inversion-not-disruption desire resembles the politics of the silenced majority in We who trade one tyrant’s cage for another’s — thematic, not cross-domain enough to qualify.

Broader Connections

• Staunch-democrat students’ egalitarianism reflected status insecurity, not socialist conviction #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2351