What is the main conflict in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by Bell Hooks?

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom is a nonfiction book, and as such, does not include traditional conflict. In this book, Hooks addresses a number of issues surrounding race, gender and class. It is clear in its motivation to dismantle repressive social forms, in this context they are named: white supremacy, patriarchy, and class. Heterosexuality is presumed. In each chapter, issues are addressed as they have appeared before the awareness of the author. Many of her observations, while based in at least one version of the truth, ran into difficulty within the context of racially integrated higher education during her years as a student. The reason for this is that many of them were viewed as possible subversion and rebellion. Her agenda is to educate for liberation. Here, the obvious problem is the relationship of trust, and the lack thereof within the system as one that sets some people up for failure even as it claims to set people up for success.