Bell Hooks Segregation

Writing Sample (Analysis) The segregation was a period time where white and colored people were socially divided. Each group had specific sections where they can be, such as restaurants, parks, restrooms, and schools either for only colored people and vice versa. The motto that marked this era was “separated but equal” a phrase that never was true; and after a long fight that lasted for over 80 years the segregation was ended. The author, Bell Hooks, from the book named Teaching to Transgress lived part of the segregation and after it finished she lived the integration. The integration was a movement to desegregate schools and other places around the United States, in other words, it consisted of put together white and colored people. The …show more content…
The few things they could aspire was to become teacher or housewives. She opted to become a teacher, but she wanted it for a hobby because the professional career, she was interested was to be a writer. At first she enjoyed school and always was excited to be there, but integration started and throughout the time she stopped to enjoy school because of the way professor taught the students. She never doubted to become a teacher despite all the bad experiences she had at school, all the contrary; they were motives to be more confused in the teaching path. The majority of the people thought that education was to learn obedience to authority, but Bell Hooks always thought that education was the practice of freedom. When she became a teacher with all of her classes tried the best because she wanted to teach in a different way compared with other teachers that only followed the education system. At the end of the introduction of her book she tried to explain that education is not going well because teacher do not want to teach and students do not want to learn and from a point of view is like time goes back when people did not enjoy