63.061 - Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Racial Battle Fatigue: The Untold Stories of Critical Educators

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

For decades, critical educators have worked to incorporate hip-hop and media culture into classroom instruction in order to push for cultural relevance and social justice. However, educators often battle with employing critical practices in a normative space. Oftentimes, teachers and students struggle with emotional fatigue, disillusionment, and disinvestment. Unfortunately, these stories are often left untold while students and educators suffer in silence. While critical and media-based education are integral to the learning and development of young people, there are numerous under-explored tensions that persist within this tenuous field of research and practice that must be further complicated and understood in order for media and social justice education to move forward as a field of critical inquiry and practice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

Chair

• Travis L. Gosa, Cornell

Papers

• When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Exploring the Struggles of Critical Hip-Hop Pedagogy - Lauren Kelly, Teachers College, Columbia University; Don C. Sawyer, Quinnipiac University

• Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Racial Battle Fatigue - Bettina L. Love, University of Georgia

• Fighting the Urge to Run and Hide: Critical Dialogic Pedagogy, the Racialized Instructor, Battling Fatigue - Jermaine Soto, Syracuse University

Discussant

• David O. Stovall, University of Illinois at Chicago