Everyday, course content in the above class brings at least one person to tears. The Matron has handed out plenty of tissues (she brings a box every day and is now sort of proud of her track record of hysteria) and heard a lot of personal stories. Most of these students are first generation college students, immigrants, poor. The Matron loves each and every one. Well, mostly.
Currently, the class is analyzing rap and hip hop to examine how the intersections of race, class, gender and heterosexuality operate in popular culture.
Students offered a couple of 'underground' links to revolutionary rap. Here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lCPXEARpE8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Vl0peys90
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I especially loved the second link. My son spent a year in Zapatista territory in Mexico as a volunteer teacher; he reveled in that stuff. Personally, I have far more empathy with the people he lived among and with those who are pictured in your video than with the rich people whose tax returns I prepare every day..
I'd like to share link too...
This a local hip hop artist named Heidi Barton Stink. She is a white, transgender woman who writes positive hip-hop with a social justice queer rights focus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTTMcd4Z7oc
What a coup that you get to tap into their young souls and they get to share their music.
illuminating! many thanks!!
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