Wish To Live: The Hip-hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader moves beyond the traditional understanding
of the four elements of hip-hop culture - rapping breakdancing graffiti art and deejaying -
to articulate how hip-hop feminist scholarship can inform educational practices and spark
transform encourage and sustain local and global youth community activism efforts. This
multi-genre and interdisciplinary reader engages performance poetry document analysis
playwriting polemics cultural critique and autobiography to radically reimagine the
political utility of hip-hop-informed social justice efforts that insist on an accountable
analysis of identity and culture. Featuring scholarship from professors and graduate and
undergraduate students actively involved in the work they profess this book's commitment to
making the practice of hip-hop feminist activism practical in our everyday lives is both
compelling and unapologetic.
