Title | Beats Rhymes and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Author | Hill, Marc Lamont |
Number of Pages | 170 |
Publisher | Teachers College Press |
City | New York |
Publication Language | eng |
ISBN or ASIN Number | 2147483647 |
Copies at the Archive | 3 |
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 ot students. But beyong 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 affecft classroom life in extraordinary ways.