Beats, rhymes, and classroom life
Subtitle: hip-hop, pedagogy, and the politics of identity
By: Marc Lamont Hill ; foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
Publisher: Teachers College, Columbia University; Teachers College Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780807749609; 9780807749616
Subjects: Education, Urban -- United States -- Sociological aspects; Hip-hop -- United States -- Influence; Literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States
Description: Discusses the importance of identity to students, and examines the potential effects of introducing elements from the hip-hop culture in the classroom, and covers hip-hop text and context, narratives, memory, and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Stakes is high": toward an anthropology of hip-hop based education; title: "Spaces and places we fly": the texts and contexts of hip-hop lit; title: "Real recognize real": negotiating authenticity politics in hip-hop lit; title: Wounded healers: forming community through storytelling; title: Bringing back sweet (and not so sweet) memories: the cultural politics of memory, hip-hop, and generational identity; title: Stakes is high (the remix): towards a hip-hop pedagogy.