Freedom Moves

H. Samy Alim is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences and Associate Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, where he directs the Hip Hop Initiative. His books include Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism, and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World.Jeff Chang is a writer, organizer, and teacher. His books include Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation.Casey Philip Wong is Assistant Professor in Georgia State University’s College of Education and Human Development. His forthcoming book is adapted from his dissertation, Pray You Catch Me: A Critical Feminist and Ethnographic Study of Love as Pedagogy and Politics for Social Justice. He has helped organize four Hip Hop Think Tank gatherings and worked in the field of Hip Hop pedagogies for over fifteen years.

• ContentsPreface Shout OutsMaking Freedom Move(s): Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and FuturesH. Samy Alim, Casey Philip Wong, and Jeff ChangPART I: BLACK, INDIGENOUS, AND DIASPORIC KNOWLEDGE1. Sweat the Technique: The Politics and Poetics of Hip Hop Rakim, Chuck D, and Talib Kweli2. Know the Ledge(s): The Meanings of Knowledge of Self in “Post”-Apartheid South AfricaShaheen Ariefdien and Emile YX?3. “Al-shaab yurid isqat al-nitham!”: Sustaining Revolution in Palestine and Syria through Hip HopDAM (Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafar, and Mahmoud Jreri), Omar Off endum, and Ramzi Salti4. “The Revolution Will Be Indigenous”: Collective Liberation, Healing, and Resistance to Settler Colonialism through Hip HopJessa Calderon, Gunner Jules, Lyla June, Tall Paul, and Tanaya Winder, with Casey Philip Wong5. “Luchando Derechos” in Neoliberal Spain: Hip Hop Visions beyond Racism, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Gentrifi cation of El Raval, BarcelonaLa Llama Rap Colectivo with H. Samy AlimPART II: HIP HOP ORGANIZING FOR ABOLITION, REPARATIONS, HEALING, AND GROWTH6. 1Hood: Hip Hop Art, Activism, and Media Creation in Pittsburgh Jasiri X7. “Protection from Police Who Hinder Respiratory Airways”: Hip Hop Theatre and Activism withKuumba Lynx in ChicagoJacinda Bullie, Jaquanda Saulter-Villegas, and Leyda “Lady Sol” Garcia8. Ripples of Hope and Healing: Sustaining Community by Creating a Social Justice Arts Ecosystem Sonya Clark-Herrera, with Measha Ferguson Smith, hodari blue fka Adorie Howard, Reagan Ross, andCasey Philip Wong9. Beyond Trauma: Storytelling as Cultural Shift and Collective HealingBryonn Bain, Mark Gonzales, A-lan Holt, and Michelle LeePART III: HIP HOP AS CRITICAL, CULTURALLY RELEVANT AND CULTURALLY SUSTAINING PEDAGOGY10. “Where the Beat Drops”: Culturally Relevant and Culturally Sustaining Hip Hop Pedagogies Gloria Ladson-Billings, Django Paris, and H. Samy Alim11. How Hip Hop Means: Retrospect for Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life Marc Lamont Hill12. The Magic behind Science Genius: How Hip Hop Can Transform Science Education Christopher Emdin and The GZA, with Bryan Brown13. Hip Hop, Whiteness, and Critical Pedagogies in the Context of Black Lives Matter A. J. RobinsonPART IV: QUEER, FEMINIST, AND DIS/ABILITY JUSTICE HIP HOP FEATURES 14. The Pleasure Principle: Articulating a Post–Hip Hop Feminist Politics of PleasureJoan Morgan, Brittney Cooper, Treva Lindsey, Kaila Adia Story, and Esther Armah15. “When Can Black Disabled Folks Come Home?”: The Krip-Hop Movement, Race, and Disability JusticeLeroy F. Moore Jr. and Stephanie Keeney Parks16. Queering Hip Hop Feminist Pedagogies in the New SouthBettina Love, Regina N. Bradley, and Mark Anthony Neal17. “These Are Not Sonnet Times”: Building toward Liberatory FuturesMaisha T. WinnContributor BiosIndex

"Artists, educators, and activists discuss how hip-hop goes beyond music in this prolific and illuminating book."