This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement this
collaborative project highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the
organic intellectuals of global hip-hop. Contributors describe the social realities -
globalization migration poverty criminalization and racism - youth are resisting through
what we recognize as a decolonial cultural politic. The book contributes to current scholarship
in multicultural education seeking to understand the vilification of youth (of color) for the
social problems created by a global system that benefits a small minority. In an age of
corporate globalization Hip-Hop(e) highlights the importance of research projects that link
the production of educational scholarship with the cultural activities everyday practice and
social concerns of global youth in order to ameliorate social economic and political problems
that transcend national boundaries.
