Revolution Along the Margins: Exploring Speculative Counter-Story Through Hip-Hop and Comic Books

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This working roundtable explores the inter/intra-action(s) of two influential art forms - hip hop and comic books - by examining their aesthetic, social, and cultural connections in educational contexts.
Particularly, this session engages this year’s theme by asking:
In what ways can our historical understandings of race create new narratives?
What is required to imagine educational spaces free of racial injustice?
We respond by drawing from counterstory, re-storying, and speculative education to consider the implications for teaching and learning afforded by a robust understanding of the interplay of these two cultural forms. These intersections offer a powerful space of creative resistance and identity affirmation, inviting new and re-claimed narratives that can foster social change and that celebrates often silenced cultures, backgrounds and lifeways.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Hip Hop Theories, Praxis & Pedagogies

Chair

• Wayne Au, University of Washington - Bothell

Papers

• The Core of Hip-Hop: Hip-Hop Influence in Miles Morales' Narratives - Sarah Ishmael, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Designing Our Futures: Hip-Hop, Comics, and Critical Speculative Design - Michael B. Dando, St. Cloud State University

• An Autoethnographic Study That Explores Comics and Hip-Hop Writings as an Intervention Tool to Effect Literacy and Social Emotional Development - Larry C. Bryant, Metro State University

• Exploring Intersections: Origins of Marvel Comics and Hip-Hop Culture, Pedagogy and Praxis - Tasha Iglesias, Utah State University