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SUMMARY:Hip Hop and the Fight for Educational Equality in America
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DESCRIPTION:Education in post-civil rights America continues to be define
 d by racial\, social class\, and gender inequality. Serious debates abou
 t failing schools have been obscured both by "post-racial" discourses\, 
 which ignore the crisis\, and by discourses that blame youth culture and
  parents. In this lecture\, Dr Travis Gosa explains how hip hop culture 
 holds a key to understanding what is wrong with America's education syst
 em. Based on his forthcoming book The School of Hard Knocks: A Hip Hop T
 heory of Education (University of Illinois Press)\, Gosa's talk will ret
 ell the cultural and political history of hip hop as an educational disc
 ourse and praxis opposed to unequal schooling in the age of neoliberalis
 m. Beyond  classroom curriculum\, this paper explores why hip hop educat
 ion must address discipline policies\, militarised classrooms\, and the 
 privatisation of K-12 schools which produce unequal opportunities to lea
 rn.
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:A4\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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