The Four Corners of Chinanko Hip-Hop Pedagogy

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: The Globalization of Hip-Hop Praxis (Table 8)

Abstract

The denial of cultural and spiritual expression of BIPOC youth and the use of teachers that are outsiders to the community and act as colonizing agents is at the core of a U.S. educational framework that perpetuates the intellectual, cultural, and spiritual arrested development of BIPOC youth. BIPOC youth experience susto, a loss of soul as a structural process. To combat susto, we present a chinanko hip-hop pedagogy, which is informed by Indigenous and Xican@/x traditions and practices, as well as, utilized to strengthen the mind, body and spirit. Specifically, we present a (CHHP), which means a neighborhood/community way of knowing. CHHP can better inform how hip-hop fosters community, promotes solidarity, challenges settler colonialism, and engages with hemispheric Indigeneities.

Authors

• LeRoy F. Saiz, The University of New Mexico

• Shiv R. Desai, University of New Mexico