Truth Transforms Into Freedom

• In Event: Living Hip-Hop: The Community-Based Organization as a Space for Educational Liberation

Abstract

Findings suggest that Hip-Hop education repositions youth as the authors of their own lives and agents of change. The resulting Hip-Hop learning space becomes an oasis of identity development, self-expression, and collective empowerment in and through the music. For the community educators who work within these four organizations, when asked about the meaning of Hip-Hop, the themes of life, freedom, culture and truth were repeated. These elements were considered as essential to the pedagogy, as well as the formation of the spaces.

Author

• Vajra M. Watson, California State University - Sacramento
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