For over a decade, educators have seemed to capitalize at the attraction of hip-hop tradition, sampling its language, ideas, and kinds as a fashion of achieving out to scholars. yet past a modern hipness, what does hip-hop need to supply our faculties? during this revelatory new ebook, Marc Lamont Hill exhibits how a significant engagement with hip-hop tradition can have an effect on lecture room lifestyles in notable methods. according to his adventure educating a hip-hop–centered English literature path in a Philadelphia highschool, and drawing from a variety of theories on early life tradition, id, and academic methods, Hill deals a compelling case for the ability of hip-hop within the school room. as well as riding up attendance and attempt functionality, Hill exhibits how hip-hop–based academic settings let scholars and lecturers to renegotiate their school room identities in advanced, contradictory, and infrequently unpredictable ways.

“One of the main profound, looking out, and insightful reviews of what occurs to the identities and worldviews of highschool scholars who're uncovered to a hip-hop curriculum."
—Michael Eric Dyson, writer, are you able to pay attention Me Now?

“Hill’s e-book is a superbly written reminder that the success gaps that scholars event could be extra appropriately characterised as cultural gaps—between them and their academics (and the bigger society). it is a ebook that is helping us see the facility and capability of pedagogy.”
—From the Foreword by means of Gloria Ladson-Billings, collage of Wisconsin–Madison

“Beats, Rhymes, and lecture room lifestyles bargains a colourful, rigorous, and complete research of hip-hop tradition as a good pedagogy, cultural politics, and a mobilizing well known shape. This booklet is important for a person attracted to hip-hop tradition, identification, schooling, and youth.”
—Henry Giroux, McMaster University

“This e-book marks the time the place our glossy literature adjustments from leisure to schooling. A research consultant for our subsequent new release utilizing the fashionable day fight into manhood and beyond.”
—M-1 from lifeless prez