Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Critical race counterstories give people the space to share their racialized stories
with the world. These stories work to expose different forms of racism like color-blind
racism. Critical race counterstories originated from the work done in critical race theory
(CRT).
In this thesis, Brooklyn Raines makes the case for how hip hop functions as a
method of critical race counterstory. Because of hip hop’s ability to reflect the social,
political, and economic conditions in the world with an emphasis on the role race plays,
Raines promotes the use of counterstories in their pedagogy with hip hop as a particular
instance for incorporating counterstory in first-year writing courses to equip students with
liberating tools. These tools include skills like critical thinking, rhetorical knowledge, and
text interpretation.
In this thesis there’s a literature review of how hip hop has been incorporated in
classrooms as well as two chapters dedicated to units for educators that want to bring hip
hop as a form of critical race counterstories into their classrooms. The first unit is based
around Kendrick Lamar’s rhetorical exchange with Fox News commentator Geraldo
Rivera. The second unit is created around the backlash Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion
received from their empowering record WAP.
The hope for this project is educators can equip students with tools like media
literacy skills, the ability to interrogate notions of White supremacy, and the ability to
form their own opinions with the assistance of responsible research. Educators deserve to
know there is exciting curriculum outside of the cannon of what is expected to be taught
that is oftentimes rooted in White supremacy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:IUPUI/oai:scholarworks.iupui.edu:1805/33310 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Raines, Brooklyn Ciara |
| Contributors | Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, Buchenot, André, Hoegberg, David |
| Source Sets | Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ |
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