About ¾ into Trainor’s “The Emotioned Power...” the only things I was getting from the article was gratitude, such as geographic gratitude, the fact that I will probably never teach at a 97% white classroom in my career. But later on in her article, her main points finally seemed to come together. This particular school was hell bent on sublimating the message of “rugged individualism,” an ideology that is purported by some to be racist in itself. It creates a discourse that subsumes the necessary mechanics of critical thought: the dialectic, passionate debate, questioning of the norm and so on. Instead, these are the components of creating “chaos,” which is disapproved of by the teaching staff. It is, perhaps, an unintentional sublimated outcome that seems to feed upon itself. Trainor doesn’t give us any answers, but her call to action to find a way to have an awareness of what “emotioned rules” we may teach through is important one to think about.
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