Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical
pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education programs. In this important book Darius D.
Prier explores how hip-hop artists construct a sense of democratic education and pedagogy with
transformative possibilities in their schools and communities. In a postmodern context
students' critical street narratives challenge educators to rethink where public education can
happen and the political and empowering purposes to which Black popular culture can serve
social justice ends for youth in urban education. This book provides educational leaders in the
academy and public schools with new cultural contexts that connect teaching and learning with
music and popular culture in relation to race class gender culture and community.
