Bell Hooks

“Keeping Close to Home: Class & Education”
Bell Hooks

The message I felt that Bell Hooks was trying to get across is that we should not abandon our community ties. We should be proud of the background that we came from. At the same time, we need to nurture those relationships with people that are different. She spoke specifically about education and how her community looks at it. She talked about the idea that she has to straddle two different worlds. The culture that she came from does not value education, and the educated community that she now works in does not value the uneducated sections of society. She does not want to loose her identity in both. Instead of education being something that divides communities and cultures, it should bring them together.