Abstract
In this essay, the author examines how Hip-Hop can be mobilized in anti-racism educational initatives. The author claims that existing research on Hip-Hop and white adolescents suggests a negative corrleation between white youths' engagement with Hip-Hop and their understanding of how race and racism function in American society. In response to this research, the author argues Hip-Hop's diverse racial discourses and ideologies must be made the subject of direct and critical inquiry in secondary and post-secondary classrooms to maximize its democratic potential. The author outlines specific approaches for how teachers can employ Hip-Hop in anti-racism curricula in secondary and post-secondary classrooms. Collectively, the essay serves as a preliminary investigation of Hip-Hop pedagogies of race and whiteness.
Highlights
By Steven Netcoh “SPREAD LOVE: COMMANDANTE BIGGIE” ARTISTS: JOHN GARCIA, CERN ONE, SEAN MEENAN PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS TINSON
According to Reyna et al, “responsibility stereotypes fully accounted for the relationship between anti-rap attitudes and street crime policies, as well as antirap attitudes and opposition to policies designed to help Blacks that do not fit the stereotype portrayed by rap” (p. 371). These results suggest that whites‟ discriminatory attitudes and politics toward black people extended beyond just those who fit rap‟s stereotypical representations of “blackness” to black Americans in general
The present analysis merely scratches the surface of Hip Hop‟s potential to mobilize racially just ideologies and politics in white adolescents, and it should serve as a preliminary investigation of Hip Hop pedagogies of race and whiteness
Summary
By Steven Netcoh “SPREAD LOVE: COMMANDANTE BIGGIE” ARTISTS: JOHN GARCIA, CERN ONE, SEAN MEENAN PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS TINSON. Given Hip Hop‟s limits in mobilizing racially just ideologies and politics in its white listener population, I draw on critical media studies scholarship to argue that secondary and post-secondary schools provide useful spaces for white adolescents to deconstruct Hip Hop‟s representations of and discourses on race and participate in meaningful dialogue about race as an embedded feature of America‟s social institutions.
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