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Black in School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth, and the Promise of Hip-Hop Culturereviewed by Marvin Lynn — 2004 Title: Black in School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth, and the Promise of Hip-Hop Culture Author(s): Shawn A. Ginwright Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 080774431x, Pages: 157, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Shawn Ginwright’s book, Black in School: Afrocentric
Reform, Urban Youth and the Promise of Hip-Hop Culture explores
Afrocentricity as a political and an epistemological movement and
erects an urban political economy as a means to explore the
effectiveness of an Afrocentric reform movement in
Oakland
,
California
. He begins with an historical analysis of Afrocentricity in the
United
States
, and he draws a rich history of the movement by focusing in
particular on the political battles that were waged between Black
communities and academe. He then addresses the ways in which two
main political tendencies grew within the movement: a Marxist or
revolutionary nationalist orientation and a cultural nationalist
orientation. He points out that Revolutionary Nationalists espoused
a Marxist ideology and felt strongly that African Americans,
particularly those who are poor and/or working class, would have to
engage in a full-scale revolution in order to change class and race
inequities. Cultural nationalists, on the other hand, believe that
African Americans need to reorient themselves to African... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Marvin Lynn
University of Maryland, College Park E-mail Author MARVIN LYNN is Assistant Professor of Minority & Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. His recent publications offer explanations and analyses of critical race theory and the work and lives of Black male teachers. He is currently completing a study of African American male teachers as inquirers into the schooling conditions for Black male high students in Prince George's County, Maryland.
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