A summary/analysis of Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education by Bell Hooks, an excerpt from The Presence of Others by Andrea Lunsford and John Ruszkiewicz.

Evaluation/Summary Oct. 4, 2002 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education I decided to evaluate an excerpt from the book The Presence of Others. This selection, entitled Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education, was written by Bell Hooks, and is taken from her book Talking Back, published in 1989. Hooks is the author of many other volumes, including Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994), and Remembered Rapture: …

…when she was set apart from the crowd, it was due to her background and where she came from. I think she best put it when she said, "Education as the practice of freedom becomes not a force which fragments of separates, but one that brings us closer, expanding our definitions of home and community." This is her goal: to no longer experience education as the "practice of exclusion," but as the "practice of freedom."