Keepin’ It Real About a White Antiracist ELA ( English Language Arts) Teacher’s Hip Hop Pedagogies: A Collaborative Cross-Racial Practitioner Inquiry

• In Event: Leveraging Teacher Identities: Telling Truths and Reconstructing Our Stories

Abstract

This paper draws on a collaborative cross-racial practitioner inquiry conducted by a White female anti-racist ELA teacher and a Black male English educator who specializes in Hip Hop Pedagogies. The inquiry stance was guided by the following research question: What cultural-political and pedagogical dilemmas emerge from a White anti-racist educator and Hip Hop cultural outsider’s use of Hip Hop Pedagogy in non-Black spaces? Study findings are salient to the 2025 Annual Meeting’s theme as the authors work to remedy and repair gaps in the research on HHBE theory and practice, especially as it relates to teachers’ intersecting social and content-area identities.

Authors

• Michele DeVirgilio, Herricks School District

• H. Bernard Hall, Drexel University