Abstract
According to the scholarly literature on youth activism, there is a “participation gap” between urban youth of color and white middle-class youth. Latina/o/x educational disparities coupled with unequal opportunities for civic learning in schools exacerbate the participation gap. Concerns with this gap are that urban youth of color are not learning participatory behaviors and will be at a disadvantage when it comes to participating in social change as adults. This chapter documents how youth/community-based organizations develop critical civic praxis, a culturally relevant form of civic participation, among Latina/o/x youth by incorporating socially conscious hip-hop music and culture into their programming. The author finds that organizations succeed in developing participatory behaviors because youth actions directly connect praxis to their communities’ needs.
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