Using Hip-Hop Texts to Unpack Social Justice

Teaching is a political act and education, the way it is traditionally presented, tends to oppress. Education is clouded by teacher’s point of view and student’s prejudice. In this presentation, hip-hop Discourse and critical literacy are demonstrated as tools to help students disrupt the balance of power, dismantling the idea that the teacher is all knowing and the student is an empty vessel, devoid of knowledge