The third area of conflict is between the aims of anti-racist mathematics education
and the alms of the other four ideologies. The most powerful groups in society wish
for mathematics education to serve their aims and to largely reproduce the hierarchical
structure of society, which is facilitated by docile blacks and workers who do not
question or threaten the stability of society. Empowering and politicized anti-racist
education has goals explicitly opposed to this, and is met with powerful and irrational
opposition Jones, 1989).