About the Book: Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black
intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of
freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class
boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teachers
most important goal. bell hooks speakes to the heart of education today: how can
we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do
about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn?
How should we deal with racism