Accountability and the Contemporary Intellectual

Analyzes the language and values that have framed the accountability movement

(Re)negotiating knowledge, power, and identities in Hip -Hop Lit

This ethnographic study contributes to the growing body of literature in cultural studies and critical pedagogy by showing how knowledge, power, and student interpretations are negotiated and renegotiated as hip-hop culture becomes a part of the official curriculum in “Hip-Hop Lit,” a hip-hop centered English literature class that I co-taught at “Howard High School.” In this study, I highlight the complex relationships that the students and teachers in Hip-Hop Lit forged with the texts and each other through various forms of identity work and the intersections of in-school and out-of-school pedagogy. Further, I demonstrate how these relationships facilitated the reconfigured roles of student, teacher, and researcher within the classroom

Gentrifier

Gentrification and gentrifiers are often understood as \u27dirty\u27 words, ideas discussed at a veiled distance.Gentrifiers, in particular, are usually a \u27they\u27. Gentrifier demystifies the idea of gentrification by opening a conversation that links the theoretical and the grassroots, spanning the literature of urban sociology, geography, planning, policy, and more. Along with established research, new analytical tools, and contemporary anecdotes, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill place their personal experiences as urbanists, academics, parents, and spouses at the centre of analysis. They expose raw conversations usually reserved for the privacy of people\u27s intimate social networks in order to complicate our understanding of the individual decisions behind urban living and the displacement of low-income residents. The authors\u27 accounts of living in New York City, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Providence link economic, political, and sociocultural factors to challenge the readers\u27 current understanding of gentrification and their own roles within their neighbourhoods. A foreword by Peter Marcuse opens the volume