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Beats, rhymes, and classroom life : hip-hop pedagogy and the politics of identity

Author: Marc Lamont Hill
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, ©2009.
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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.
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  • Education, Urban -- United States -- Sociological aspects.
  • Hip-hop -- United States -- Influence.
  • Literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States.
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Hill, Marc Lamont.
Beats, rhymes, and classroom life.
New York : Teachers College Press, ©2009
(OCoLC)734735083
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Marc Lamont Hill
ISBN: 9780807749609 0807749605 9780807749616 0807749613
OCLC Number: 297405647
Description: xix, 170 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: "Stakes is high": toward an anthropology of hip-hop-based education --
"Spaces and places we fly": the texts and contexts of hip-hop lit --
"Real recognize real": negotiating authenticity politics in hip-hop lit --
Wounded healers: forming community through storytelling --
Bringing back sweet (and not so sweet) memories: the cultural politics of memory, hip-hop, and generational identity --
Stakes is high (the remix): towards a hip-hop pedagogy.
Responsibility: Marc Lamont Hill ; foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings.
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Abstract:

Shares the author's experience teaching a hip-hop centered English literature course in a Philadelphia high school where rap music, turntablism, breakdancing, graffiti culture, and other aspects of
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