The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Hip-Hop Pedagogy From the United States to South Africa

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will elaborate on a multi-sited ethnographic study of Hip Hop as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP). Together, a university, two community-based hip hop organizations, and a high school based in the California Bay Area and Cape Town, South Africa undertook the development of a CSPs framework for comparative study and global cultural and pedagogical exchange. This symposium will explore how Hip Hop, youth culture, and social justice ideas were combined to impact high school students’ engagement and learning in school, community, and civic life. We argue that Hip Hop educators must continue to reach toward new futures and possibilities that courageously embrace loving critique and community-rooted collective dreaming.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chair

• H. Samy Alim, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• The Lyricist's Ethic: Collective Affirmation at the Community of Practice Level - Keith G. Cross, Stanford University

• Raising Communities: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and Affective Labor in an Exemplary Community-Based Hip-Hop Organization - Reagan Ross; Adorie Howard; Measha Ferguson-Smith

• Double Entendre Got Bodied: Subversive Ambivalence and Latinx Young Men Rappin Under the White Gaze - Casey Philip Wong, Stanford University

• Hip-Hop as an Organic Form of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy From South Africa to the United States - H. Samy Alim, University of California - Los Angeles; Adam Haupt, University of Cape Town

Discussant

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison