(Re)Making Space: Black Hip-Hop Geographies in Preservice Social Studies Classrooms

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  In Roundtable Session: The Hip-Hop Cypher: Collective Voices for Systemic Change (Table 5)

Abstract

Marked by whiteness, traditional social studies spaces exclude the narratives of systemically marginalized communities. This paper employs duoethnographic methods and the concept of Black Hip Hop geographies to study the ways two Black teacher educators remake social studies spaces through Hip Hop culture. By utilizing their Hip Hop sensibilities in their courses, these teacher educators created more resistant, justice-oriented, and critical social studies spaces. These new geographic spaces can help preservice teachers imagine a more truthful and inclusive social studies.

Authors

• Asif Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Presenting Author

• Delandrea Hall, Georgia Southern University
  Presenting Author