And These Are the Breaks: Black Hip Hop Social Studies Geographies

In this article, the coauthors use the metaphor of breaking to search inward. Drawing on Black Crit and Black geographies as conceptual frameworks and critical race counterstorytelling methodologies they illuminate the ways that their pedagogical and curricular praxes locate, imagine, and create new possibilities in their pre-service Social Studies classrooms. In doing so, the authors introduce a conceptualization of what they have termed Black Hip Hop Social Studies Geographies. Black Hip Hop Social Studies Geographies are symbolic in that they symbolize a break from traditional Social Studies education and advance a praxis rooted in critical analyses of anti-Blackness, imagination of alternatives, and pedagogical and curricular ways to create new Social Studies realities for teachers and students. The authors conclude the article with implications for P-20 Social Studies education and research.