Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis. (January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lindsey, Treva B.
• Other Names: Petchauer Emery guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urban education. Volume 50:Number 1(2015:Jan.)
• Page Start: 52
• Page End: 77
• Publication Date: 2015-01
• Subjects: urban education -- popular culture -- African American students -- Black females -- subjects -- violence; Education, Urban -- Periodicals; Enseignement en milieu urbain -- Périodiques; Éducation; Milieu urbain; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 370.91732
• DOI: 10.1177/0042085914563184
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0859

Abstract

This essay brings together key theoretical interventions in hip-hop feminism to explore the continued, but undervalued, significance of hip-hop feminism in urban education. More specifically, the essay challenges narrow conceptualizations of the hip hop subject as Black and male by using hip-hop feminist theory to incorporate the lived experiences of Black and Brown girls and women. With a particular emphasis on the realities of violence Black and Brown girls and women, trans*, and queer people confront, I argue for the incorporation of hip hop feminism as a social justice theory and praxis in urban education.