Jarvis R. Givens, School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness

their own students, sharing the hypothetical mic.They admit the barriers to doing Hip Hop pedagogy in traditional public school settings in the United States.Kelly and Robinson acknowledge educators' respectability and students' acceptance of conventional teacher-student power dynamics as roadblocks to change; Rawls and Robinson are honest about educators' initial resistance and fear to incorporate youth culture and the possibilities for classroom culture as educators grow into a Hip Hop mindset.Section IV presents tangible products, like Nightengale-Lee's Liberating Literacies Template, and guiding questions that involve a HHP lens.The lived experience the contributors share in this section of the handbook aspires to propel readers into doing the Hip Hop pedagogical work.Hip Hop is generated from youth calling out and naming the state of their world; the throughline that carries the reader from the beginning to the end of this book is the call: the employment of a Hip Hop based practice and pedagogy is not a quick cultural fix.A deep reverence for the culture and the willingness to interrogate when operating within it outlines an avenue for educational transformation.To use Hip Hop in education is a commitment to one's self-reflection, critical inquiry, and relationship to the students' readers serve.Hip Hop has acted as an anchor so that many marginalized communities could find visibility and agency; this handbook has the possibility to be the soundtrack to regenerate classroom cultures with applicable tools and thoughtful inquiry.