Disclaimer: i didn't read the article beyond a few paragraphs, and i know little about the USA > "Separate but Equal" Arguably, nostalgia of such community sc

Disclaimer: i didn't read the article beyond a few paragraphs, and i know little about the USA > "Separate but Equal" Arguably, nostalgia of such community schools is not just for KKK lovers. France famously has racially-mixed schools with a lot of racism which ensure some minorities are not well educated (who cares if they can read as long as they can work?). bell hooks, a famous black activist/scholar, says in "Teaching to transcend" [0]: > School changed utterly with racial integration. Gone was the messianic zeal to transform our minds and beings that had characterized teachers and their pedagogical practices in our all-black schools. Knowledge was suddenly about information only. > School was still a political place, since we were always having to counter white racist assumptions that we were genetically infe­rior, never as capable as white peers, even unable to learn. Yet, the politics were no longer counter-hegemonic. We were always and only responding and reacting to white folks. > That shift from beloved, all-black schools to white schools where black students were always seen as interlopers, as not really belonging, taught me the difference between education as the practice of freedom and education that merely strives to reinforce domination. [0] http://sites.utexas.edu/lsjcs/files/2018/02/Teaching-to-Transcend.pdf http://sites.utexas.edu/lsjcs/files/2018/02/Teaching-to-Tran...