Toward a critical hip-hop and spoken word pedagogy -- "Keepin' it real" : the discourse of authenticity and the challenge for hip-hop pedagogies -- The tale of the talent night rap : black popular culture in schools and the challenge of interpretation -- Making sense out of worlds that are different : race and hip-hop pedagogies -- Niggaz, bitches, and hoes : hip-hop nation language as limit-case for education -- Pedagogic futures for hip-hop and spoken word
Summary
Annotation Takes the reader into the heart of a poetry course in an urban high school to make the case for critical hip-hop pedagogies. This course confronted the barries of race, class, gender and generation that can separate teachers and students
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-177) and index