Description
Book SynopsisHip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline was created for K12 students in hopes that they find tangible strategies for creating affirming communities where students, parents, advocates and community members collaborate to compose liberating and just frameworks that effectively define the school-to-prison pipeline and identify the nefarious ways it adversely affects their lives. This book is for educators, activists, community organizers, teachers, scholars, politicians, and administrators who we hope will join us in challenging the predominant preconceived notion held by many educators that Hip-Hop has no redeemable value. Lastly, the authors/editors argue against the understanding of Hip-Hop studies as primarily an academic endeavor situated solely in the academy. They understand the fact that people on streets, blocks, avenues, have been living and theorizing about Hip-Hop since its inception. This important critical book is an honest, thorough, powerful, and
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“There are too many people saying we should lock youth up and that we need more security and cops in schools. This book says the complete opposite; we need more liberation, freedom, love, counselors, teachers, therapists, social justice courses, and psychologists in school.”—Transformative Justice Journal
“Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline is an intersectional radical intervention in promoting youth justice and social justice education. This book is a must read to truly understand how the system is oppressing and locking up youth, especially Youth of Color. To end the school to prison, we must listen to youth and those affected by it, Hip Hop is their megaphone.”—Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, Emeritus Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, Syracuse University
“This timely and thought-provoking book adopts an intersectional approach for understanding hip hop as a form of public pedagogy capable of challenging systems of domination. It reflects and contributes to many of today's social movements (BLM, mass incarceration, education reform, feminism, queer liberation) and seeks nothing less than radical, transformative social change. Nothing but applause and claps!”—Jason Del Gandio, co-editor of Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution
“This is a must read book, which connects the culture that is most affected by the school to prison pipeline to scholars who are experts on the issue. Finally, we are connecting the dots and not speaking at, but speaking with.”—Peace Studies Journal
Table of Contents
H.A. Jabar Odokhan-El: Foreword – Daniel White Hodge/Don C. Sawyer III/Anthony J. Nocella II/Ahmad R. Washington: Introduction. Hip Hop, the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and #Noyouthinprison – Valeria Benabdallah: Hip Hop in the Time of Trauma – Anthony J. Nocella II/Kim Socha: The New Eugenics: Challenging Urban Education and Special Education and the Promise of Hip Hop Pedagogy – Travis Harris/Daniel White Hodge: They Schools: Hip Hop as a Pedagogical Process for Youth in Juvenile Detention Centers – Anthony J. Nocella II/Priya Parmar/Don C. Sawyer III/ Michael Cermak: Hip Hop, Food Justice, and Environmental Justice – Ahmad Washington: Contesting the School-to-Prison Pipeline Through Political Rap Music: An Interview with Skipp Coon – Anthony J. Nocella II: Transforming Justice and Hip Hop Activism in Action – Torie Weiston-Serdan/Arash Daneshzadeh: Soulja’s Story: Critical Mentoring as a Site for Street Activism – Contributors – Index.
