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

by Marc Lamont Hill

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807749605
• ISBN13: 9780807749609
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 9.3"