Hong's essay argues that the university must be reimagined as a site for new kinds of knowledge production that uplift rather than harm Black feminists. These new kinds of knowledge productions, in order to radically reimagine the way in which the university functions in relation to Black feminists, must redefine what the university currently has narrowly deemed as knowledge. In an effort to truly uplift and understand Black feminist scholarship—both within the university and beyond—the university must embrace Black feminist scholarship as a groundbreaking divergence from the norm, appreciating it as an unprecedented exploration of the unknown and the erased. The university will remain a system of racial management if it continues to produce the racialized and gendered knowledge—mistaken as "excellence"—that it does, and it instead must reject these "given facts of the universe," as Hong (quoted via Marcuse) writes, in order to effectively reimagine itself as a site for new kinds of epistemological, methodological, and intellectual projects that do justice to Black feminists rather than ironically fetishize and aid in the destruction of Black feminists. Overall, it is through the embodiment of authentic Black feminism that the university can be dismantled as a site for the management of race, and can be further dismantled as a perpetrator of violence and economic inequality that harms, specifically, Black women.

Hong's essay relies greatly upon the work of Black feminist Barbara Christian, pointedly Christian's essay, Diminishing Returns: Can Black Feminism(s) Survive the Academy? published in 1994. Hong's essay functions as both a response to Christian's essay and as a call to action for her readers—specifically those engaged and associated with the university—to utilize Black feminist thought as a guide to remodel the productions of knowledge within the university. To construct a compelling argument, Hong takes the reader through the history of the relationship between the university and Black feminists/feminism. She begins by highlighting how the university's origins are derived from European institutions, enabling Hong to define the university as inherently colonial, further playing in direct juxtaposition to Black feminist modes of thinking and productions of knowledge. This deep-rooted juxtaposition between the colonial university and the Black feminist becomes the foundation of Hong's argument as she advances her claim that the university must reject colonial, narrow-minded scholarship and embrace flexible, alternative Black feminist scholarship instead. More so, this juxtaposition induces Hong's overall message that the university's only option is to abandon these colonial modes of thinking that maintain its function as a site for racial management if the university wants to instead become a site where new forms of knowledge—that uplift, rather than harm, Black feminists—are produced.

Hong's argument was highly effective in that it pieced together how the inherent structure and origin of the university plays into the forms of knowledge produced by the university in present day, and how this further harms Black feminists. Hong's ability to connect different elements of the university to elucidate their implications and relations to Black feminism made for a convincing argument that relied heavily on logos. Hong's argument was acutely persuasive, but her incessant references to Christian and Christian's essay made it difficult to discern which ideas were actually her own. Had Hong made more of an effort to demonstrate ideas further removed from the substance of Christian's essay, Hong's own essay would read as even more powerful. Hong does make it clear at the beginning of the essay that Christian's essay had a profound effect on her when she read it fourteen years ago, but Hong's essay could've been executed with the same inspirations from Christian's essay without necessarily referencing Christian's essay so many times. Overall, though, Hong's "The Future of Our Worlds": Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University under Globalization was incredibly moving and has had a significant impact on the ways in which I now understand the university as a system of violent racial management in desperate need of a radical re-envisioning facilitated by the induction and prioritization of Black feminism.