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Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism, co-edited by provocative and Fiercely intelligent Hip Hop heads Arash Daneshzadeh, Anthony J. Nocella II, Chandra Ward, and Ahmad Washington, is a fresh thought-provoking book that engages in social justice, Black Lives Matter, Hip Hop, youth culture, and current affairs. This must-read is a timely and powerfully engaging collection of interviews by outstanding, brilliant BIPOC Hip Hop activists from around the United States. Their stories are a poignant testimony for what is happening in the streets against racism, classism, police brutality, prisons, hate groups, and white supremacy. This dope-ass book that screams loud FTP is perfect for any reader at any age.
List of contents
Don C. Sawyer III: Foreword - Clifton G. Sanders and Nathaniel "N8" Sanders: Preface Acknowledgements - Arash Daneshzadeh, Anthony J. Nocella II, Chandra Ward, and Ahmad Washington: Introduction: The Emergence of the 11th Element of Hip Hop - Anthony J. Nocella II: Chapter One: Interview with Lauren Leigh Kelly - Arash Daneshzadeh: Chapter Two: Interview with Eli Jacobs- Fantauzzi - Anthony J. Nocella II: Chapter Three: Interview with "Mic" Crenshaw - Anthony J. Nocella II: Chapter Four: Interview with Reies Romero - Chandra Ward: Chapter Five: Interview with Katrina Benally - Ahmad Washington: Chapter Six: Interview with Selinda Guerrero - Ahmad Washington: Chapter Seven: Interview with Antonio Quintana - Ahmad Washington: Chapter Eight: Interview with Jared A. Ball - David Michael: Afterword - Contributors - Index.
About the author
Arash Daneshzadeh, Ed.D., currently teaches in the Graduate School of Education at the University of San Francisco and as faculty in the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Penitentiary. Dr. Daneshzadeh is Editor-in-Chief of The Transformative Justice Journal, National Chair for Save the Kids from Incarceration, and co-editor of Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-to-School Pipeline.
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., scholar-activist, is an editor of the Peace Studies Journal and a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Salt Lake Community College. He is the co-founder of disability pedagogy, terrorization, and ecoability and has published over one-hundred articles and forty books.
Chandra Ward, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research focuses on democratizing and leveraging technology to address extant urban issues.
Ahmad R. Washington, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at The University of Louisville. He teaches in the School Counseling program, where he works with pre-service school counseling students as they prepare to transition into the profession.
Summary
This is a collection of interviews by outstanding, brilliant BIPOC Hip Hop activists from around the US, whose stories are a poignant testimony for what is happening in the streets against racism, classism, police brutality, prisons, hate groups, and white supremacy.
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"Emerging from intersectional activism inspired and informed by the radical teachings of Hip Hop, this anthology offers first-hand accounts of how Hip Hop culture speaks truth to power taking action to address and eliminate oppression. Extremely timely, Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism is a must read for anyone interested in how diverse scholar-artist activists are taking action in their communities." -Johnny Lupinacci, Associate Professor, Washington State University
