SXSW EDU 2025
Reimagining Black Life & Loving Blackness Through Hip Hop
Description:
This session engages hip hop as a cultural resource that reorients us to the tensions of recognizing anti-Black racism while simultaneously realizing the beauty of Blackness. Specifically, we will bring together Black intellectual and Black popular culture to explore what cultural critic bell hooks’s calls loving Blackness as political resistance. Beginning with an explanation of loving Blackness and offering a hip hop exemplar to illustrate this practice, the session imagines what our conversations could look like amidst conditions that restrain our capacity to talk honestly about race.
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Takeaways
- Understand loving Blackness as political resistance as another framework to be used in our educational contexts when discussing social justice issues.
- Employ hip hop as a pedagogical tool to revisit and reimagine how we talk about Blackness and diversity, equity, and inclusion in nuanced ways.
- Use hip hop as a referent for thinking about how we approach our current and future conversations about systems of oppression and liberation.
Speakers
- Danielle Hodge, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Colorado Boulder
Organizer
Danielle Hodge, Professor of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder
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