Lords Above Us and Within Us: Exploring Race, Spirituality, and Hip Hop Based Education

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Moira E. Pirsch

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This article explores selected scholarship, understandings, and practices utilized in Hip Hop culture and Hip Hop Based Education (HHBE) as they relate to conceptions of race and spirituality, ways in which scholars describe the relationship of HHBE to spiritual experiences, and how HHBE connects to racial identity and spiritual development. The article also explores the past and promise of these understandings and recent scholarship on the intersections of HHBE, spirituality, and race. The article closes by highlighting the emerging fields of hip-hop literacies, racial literacy, and spiritual literacy.

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