Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society journal publishes new blog series exploring hip hop and decolonization
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society just published a series entitled “Hip Hop and Decolonization” that includes twelve essays from hip hop artists and thinkers spanning a wide range of ideas and communities. Many of the essays utilize and incorporate audio and video, including the essay from Mark V. Campbell, which has a specially recorded DJ set for his essay.
Check out the essays below!
Jasiri X – Motivation and Mission (Don’t Let Them Get Away With Murder) – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/motivation-and-mission-dont-let-them-get-away-with-murder/
SCZ – Remixing: Decolonial Strategies in Cultural Production – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/remixing-decolonial-strategies-in-cultural-production/
Kyle T. Mays – Can We Live And Be Modern? Decolonization, Indigenous Modernity, and Hip Hop – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/can-we-live-and-be-modern-decolonization-indigenous-modernity-and-hip-hop/
Jenell Navarro – Remixing Education: Tall Paul’s Contributions to Decolonizing the Classroom – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/remixing-education-tall-pauls-contributions-to-decolonizing-the-classroom/
Susan Blight – Where You’re From and Where You’re At: Place, Space and the Assertion of Nationhood in Shibastik’s “Moose River” – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/where-youre-from-and-where-youre-at-place-space-and-the-assertion-of-nationhood-in-shibastiks-moose-river/
Frank Waln – Indigenous Hip Hop and Performance as Resurgence – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/indigenous-hip-hop-and-performance-as-resurgence/
Bryce Henson – Burning the Imperialist Nostalgia: The Native Urban Renaissance in North America – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/burning-the-imperialist-nostalgia-the-native-urban-renaissance-in-north-america/
Mark V. Campbell – Sonic Intimacies: On DJing Better Futures – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/sonic-intimacies-on-djing-better-futures/
Chandni Desai – Trackin’ Settler Colonial Erasures in Palestine: Decolonizing Zionist Toponymy – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/trackin-settler-colonial-erasures-in-palestine-decolonizing-zionist-toponymy/
Lindsay Knight (Eekwol) – Rhyming Out the Future: Reclaiming Indigenous Identity Through Hip Hop – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/rhyming-out-the-future-reclaiming-identity-through-indigenous-hip-hop/
Mahlikah Awe:ri (of the Red Slam Collective) – Right Level, Next Level: Indigenizing Hip Hop – https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/right-level-next-level-indigenizing-hip-hop/
Professor D.Us (of Dope Poets) – Hip Hop’s Origins as Organic Decolonization –https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/hiphops-origins-as-organic-decolonization/