The Road to Learning Revolutionary Love: Exploring Race, Spirituality, and Spoken Word– and Hip-Hop-Based Education

• In Event: Shape Shifting Identities in Hip-Hop: Spirituality, Hustle, and Authenticity

Abstract

This article explores an in depth look at scholarship, strategies and practices utilized in Hip Hop Based Education (HHBE) over the past decade as they relate to understandings of race and spirituality. This article explores how scholars describe the relationship of Hip Hop Based Education to spiritual experiences and how HHBE connects to racial identity and spiritual development. This article explores the past and promise of these understandings, while being framed by sociocultural theories of education and explore recent scholarship that looks at the intersections of HHBE, spirituality, and race. Finally, the article closes with highlighting the emerging fields of Hip Hop Literacies, Racial Literacy and Spiritual Literacy.

Author

• Moira E Pirsch, Teachers College, Columbia University