Teaching for Liberation

Dr. Edmund Adjapong is an associate professor in the Educational Studies Department at Seton Hall University. Dr. Adjapong is a STEM and Urban Education advocate whose work and research address issues of race, class, inequities in education, and misperceptions of urban youth. His current focus is on how to incorporate youth culture into educational spaces, specifically on utilizing hiphop culture and sensibilities as an approach to teaching and learning.Dr. Kelly Allen is Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education and Human Development at Augusta University. Dr. Allen’s work and research is interested in the disruption of racism and inequities in education. Currently, her work examines the intersection of culture, race, curriculum, and pedagogy, especially in the implementation of hip-hop education.

• Foreword – Introduction – Centering Youth Culture in Hip- Hop Education: Keeping it Real with Gloria Ladson- Billings – Intentional Centering of Hip- Hop within and beyond Educational Spaces: Keeping it Real with P. Thandi Hicks Harper – Interrogating Anti- Blackness in Relationship to Hip-Hop: Keeping it Real with Ian Levy – Towards a Critical Centering of Youth Perspectives on Hip- Hop Education: Keeping it Real with David Stovall – Cultivating Intersectional Perspectives of Hip- Hop Education: Keeping it Real with Marcella Runell Hall – On Youth- Centered Hip- Hop Pedagogies and Praxis: Keeping it Real with Lauren Kelly – On Authenticity from a Student and Teacher Perspective: Keeping it Real with Victoria Richardson – The Power of Hip- Hop as a Tool: Keeping it Real with Christopher Emdin – Towards Realizing Freedom Dreams: Reflections and Next Steps.

“Teaching for Liberation is a must-read that propels its readers into the urgent work of dreaming into the future of hip-hop education. It sits us at the feet of noted scholars, decades of research, wisdom, and practice to forward the critical power of hip-hop culture and educational justice.”Jamila Lyiscott, Associate Professor of Social Justice Education Founding Co-director of The Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research University of Massachusetts Amherst