Reimagining Youth, Identity, and the Social World: Global Hip-Hop Intellectuals as a Site of Resistance and Transformation

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Abstract:
The presenters in this panel lend insight as to why some global youth, hip-hop pedagogues in Cuba, Sweden, the US, the Philippines and Demark, are formulating oppositional identities to the policies, structures, and practices that cause oppression in their communities and in other social contexts as well as are working collectively to generate a new social reality for all citizens. Through ethnographic research, theoretical insights, and conceptual analysis, the panelist argue that hip-hop culture must not be viewed as a fixed set of practices that arise out of prefigured circumstances or sensibilities connected the global ‘Other.’ However, they make clear the deleterious effects of neoliberalism are responsible for global hip-hop youth generating similar social practices aimed at building an equalitarian world.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Julie Gorlewski, SUNY - College at New Paltz

Papers

• Rebellion Politik: A Tale of Critical Resistance Through Hip-Hop From St. Paul to Havana - Brian Lozenski, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Possibility: Arab-American Hip-Hop and Spoken Word as Cultural Action for Freedom - Muna J. Shami, American Institutes for Research

• After Hip-Hop Culture: Scandinavian Youth and the Self-Aesthetic Relation - Kip Kline, Lewis University

• Hip-Hop and Folkbildning: A Voice for Marginalized Youth in Sweden - Carl Johan Soderman, Malmö University

• Hip-Hop, Critical Pedagogy, and Participatory Action Research in the Philippines - Michael Joseph Viola, Antioch University Seattle

Discussants

• Bradley J. Porfilio, California State University - East Bay

• Peter L. McLaren, University of California - Los Angeles