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Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity

Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity

Hill, Marc Lamont

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ISBN10: 0807749605
ISBN13: 9780807749609
Publisher: Teachers College Pr
Published: Apr 23 2009
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

For over a decade, educators have looked to capitalize on the appeal of hip-hop culture, sampling its language, techniques, and styles as a way of reaching out to students. But beyond a fashionable hipness, what does hip-hop have to offer our schools? In this revelatory new book, Marc Lamont Hill shows how a serious engagement with hip-hop culture can affect classroom life in extraordinary ways. Based on his experience teaching a hip-hop-centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school, and drawing from a range of theories on youth culture, identity, and educational processes, Hill offers a compelling case for the power of hip-hop in the classroom. In addition to driving up attendance and test performance, Hill shows how hip-hop-based educational settings enable students and teachers to renegotiate their classroom identities in complex, contradictory, and often unpredictable ways.

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