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Knowing What’s Up and Learning What You’re Not Supposed to

Hip-Hop Collegians, Higher Education, and the Limits of Critical Consciousness

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ID19003583
AuthorsEmery Petchauer (0009-0003-7398-6683, Lincoln University, PA, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume42
Issue5
Pages768-790
Publication date2010-11-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934710376164
OpenAlexW2085448899
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited21

This qualitative portraiture study explores the different ways that college students deeply involved in hip-hop at two universities (i.e., hip-hop collegians) made their personal experiences in hip-hop relevant to their educational pursuits. The results of this study illustrate how students applied their experiences with the critical discourses of hip-hop music and the questioning discourse of hip-hop more generally to their perspectives of university education and their specific academic pursuits. This article also details the limits of these critical perspectives by illustrating how a subsample of hip-hop turntablists did not mobilize the critical and political perspectives that other participants embraced. Overall, this article focuses on the different ways that young adults from various ethnic backgrounds make a cultural artifact created primarily by Black communities relevant to their educational lives

Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Critical consciousness · Critical theory · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Diverse Music Education Insights · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Psychology

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Citation span2018 - 2026 (9)
Highly citedNo

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