OER AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE

 

OER for AFR 202:

Hip Hop Justice

 

 

 

• Blackboard articles: these are marked in the syllabus with (BB)

• Required Texts are marked in the syllabus with (RT)

  • (RT) Jay-Z, Decoded. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011. Can purchase this book digitally from Amazon in the Kindle format, which can be read on all devices. Cost: $6.99

  • (RT) Chang, Jeff. Can't stop won't stop: A history of the hip-hop generation. St. Martin's Press, 2004.  Can purchase this book digitally from Amazon in the Kindle format, which can be read on all devices. Cost: $12.99

• Other resources (books, articles, videos) can be accessed via the URL link provided. These resources are open and free.

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WEEK 1

• Syllabus, Course expectations                           

• Kellner, D., & Share, J. (2005). Toward critical media literacy: Core concepts, debates, organizations, and policy. Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, 26(3), 369- 386. Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.

• Baszile, D. T. (2009). Deal with it we must: Education, social justice, and the curriculum of hip-hop culture. Equity & Excellence in Education, 42(1), 6-19. Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.

WEEK 2

• Akom, Antwi A. "Critical hip hop pedagogy as a form of liberatory praxis." Equity & Excellence in Education 42.1 (2009): 52-66. Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.

• Ford Jr, Robert. "Jive talking NY DJs rapping away in black discos." That’s The Joint: A Hip Hop Studies Reader. Ed. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. New York: Routledge (2004): 43-44. This article by Ford was found in a 1979 Billboard Magazine. Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.

• (RT) Chang, J. (2007). “Making a Name: How DJ Kool Herc Lost His Accent and Started Hip Hop” Can't stop won't stop: A history of the hip-hop generation. St. Martin's Press.

• Pabon, Jorge. "Physical graffiti: The history of hip-hop dance." Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop (2006): 18-26. Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.

• (BB) Castleman, Craig. "The politics of graffiti." That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, Ed. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. New York: Routledge (2004): 21-29.

• Watch: “40 Years of Hip-Hop” by KRS-One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0G6RCi5AxA 

  • Use for educational purposes under the Fair Use provision of the US Copyright Act.

WEEK 3

• Special Guest: Harriet Lampkin, Esq. presents “I Rest My Case: Law, Life and Leadership in the Black South”

• Raquel Rivera, “Enter the New York Ricans” (pp. 11-30) from Raquel Rivera, New York Ricans in the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).  Access provided by Internet Archive Open Library. Free account with the Internet Archive required to read this e-book.

• (RT) Jeff Chang, “Sipple Out Deh: Jamaica’s Roots”

• Watch: Wu Tang: An American Saga, “Can It All Be So Simple” Episode 1. This video was taken down from YouTube. Available on Hulu.

WEEK 4

• Special Guests: Drs. Lauren Leigh Kelly, Edmund Adjapong, and Ian Levy present Hip-Hop and Mental Health

• (RT) Jeff Chang, “1982: Rapture in Reagan’s America”

• Watch: Wu Tang: An American Saga, “Winter Warz” Ep. 2. This video was taken down from YouTube. Available on Hulu.

• Special Guest: Dr. Tony Keith Jr. presents Ed Emcees

WEEK 5

• Kitwana, B. (2004). The state of the hip-hop generation: How hip-hop’s cultural movement is evolving into political power. Diogenes, 51(3), 115-120. Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.

• Watch: “Teaching and Being Ratchetdemic” by Chris Emdin
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QmFREcXri0
    • The use of this video is for educational purposes under the Fair Use provision of the US Copyright Act.
• Library Visit: Annotated Bibliography Workshop
• Writing Center: Annotated Bibliography 

WEEK 6

• Special Guest: Caty Taborda-Whitt presents Surviving the Wilderness: Grad School & Fellowship Applications
• (RT) Jay Z. Decoded. “Intro-Part I”
• (RT) Jeff Chang, “Necropolis: The Bronx and the Politics of Abandonment”

WEEK 7

• Special Guest: Dr. LeConte Dill presents Poetry & Self-Care
• Watch: (Film) Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (2006). Access via John Jay Library, using JJ login credentials.
• Michael P. Jeffries, “Thug Life and Social Death” (pp. 163-175) from Michael Jeffries, Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip Hop (University of Chicago Press, 2010). Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.
• (RT) Jay-Z. Decoded. “Part II”

WEEK 8

• Special Guest: Aysha Upchurch presents Hip-Hop
• (BB) Tricia Rose, “Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music” in Black Noise:Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1994 pp. 146-182
• Cheryl L. Keyes, “Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance" Available through JSTOR by logging on to library using JJ credentials.
• Morgan, Joan (1995). “Fly-Girls, Bitches, and Hoes: Notes of a Hip Hop Feminist”, No. 45 (Winter, 1995), pp. 151-157 (7 pages). Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.
• Pough, G. D. (2007). "What it do, Shorty?: Women, hip-hop, and a feminist agenda." Black Women, Gender & Families, 1(2), 78-99.
  • Login to JSTOR using JJ credentials.

WEEK 10

• Final Showcase Planning session
• (RT) Jay Z Decoded. “Part III”

• Keith Negus, “The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suit”. Cultural Studies, July 1, 1999. Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.

WEEK 11

• Michelle Alexander, Conclusion (pp. 234-248), from The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2009). Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.
  • Note: The library has limited online access to this title. Only one copy, at a time, can be read (checkout is only for 1 hour, but can be renewed).

WEEK 12

• Workshop for Showcase
• Paul Butler Conclusion (pp. 216-225), from Let’s Get Free: A Hip Hop Theory of Justice (New Press, 2009). Library Resource; login with JJ credentials.
  • Note: The library has limited online access to this title (checkout is only for 1 hour at a time). Only one copy, at a time, can be read. 
• (RT) Jay Z, Decoded. “Part IV-Conclusion”
• Publicity check in; review logistics for Showcase
• (RT) Jeff Chang, “New World Order: Globalization, Containment, and Counterculture at the End of the Century”.

WEEK 13

• Clark, M. K. (2018). Feminisms in African Hip Hop. Meridians, 17(2), 383-400.

• Small group practice for Showcase presentations

WEEK 14

• Showcase!

WEEK 15

• W(RAP)-UP of Class
  • De-brief of Showcase
  • Outline of rubric
  • Checklist for Lyrical Portfolio
  • Lyrical Portfolio due in class