From the article: ". . . a pedagogy and politics of critical literacy must not only push students to rhetorically challenge and rewrite the 'consensus of common sense,' as Bhabha insightfully argues, but also to think about and engage the ways that common sense becomes embedded in the material structures and machineries of power that frame their daily experiences. It is one thing to challenge the logic of racism in our classrooms and quite another to confront the way its historical legacy has structured the still largely segregated experience of schooling--and daily life."