The Education of Race and Gender

Making Black Girls “Ladylike”
by kameelah rasheed
August 22, 2007

“Looking at the intersection of race, gender, capitalism and pedagogy, the disciplinary efforts and hidden curriculum are working toward a desired young Black woman — one who does not ask too many questions, accepts the power arrangements in schools and becomes a proper young lady — pink bows and all. Schools since their inception have been focused on the poetics of assimilation and thus are sites of production not only for the ready-made American citizen who does not challenge his government or is a depoliticized consumers, but the ‘acceptable’ Black woman who is docile, domesticated and unchallenging.”

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