A Critical Hip-Hop School Counseling Framework for Promoting Black Consciousness

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 30
  In Roundtable Session: "Never Let Me Down": Critical Perspectives in Hip-Hop Education and Counseling

Abstract

In this paper, I outline a guiding framework for critical hip hop school counseling novice and tenured school counselors can use when working with Black boys. This manuscript will demonstrate how various facets of hip hop culture (e.g., music, hip hop scholarship) can sharpen Black boys’ conscientização and help them discern how interconnected social institutions (e.g., political systems; traditional schools) are grounded in anti-Black discourses and practices that endanger Black life (Dumas, 2016).

Author

• Ahmad Rashad Washington, University of Louisville