Hope Peddlers. The Politics of Respectability as Agnotology: Countering Respectability Politics Through MOBism and Black Male Authenticity

• In Event: Hip-Hop Education for Teachers' Professional Growth and Development

Abstract

This paper examines how first generation, low income Black male college students within the My Other Brother (MOB) organization navigate their racialized experiences on campus and the particular role that the relationships they developed with faculty/staff played in these processes. Students from the study conveyed that they are looking for relationships with faculty/staff that actively engage questions of racial justice. In connection to Hip Hop, students identified Hip Hop as a racialized life style, more than a pedagogy. When they found these aspects within their mentoring relationships, they felt affirmed in their experiences on campus. When they did not, they felt disconnected from their mentors and the campus in general.

Author

• Ishman Anderson, San Francisco State University