The Fifth Element: Social Justice Pedagogy through Spoken Word Poetry
The writing and performance of spoken word poetry can create moments of productive critical engagement. In The Fifth Element, Crystal Leigh Endsley charts her experience of working with a dynamic and diverse group of college students, who are also emerging artists, to explore the connection between spoken word and social responsibility. She considers how themes of activism, identity, and love intersect with the lived experiences of these students and how they use spoken word to negotiate resistance and to navigate through life. Endsley also examines the local and transnational communities where performances took place to shed light on concepts of social responsibility and knowledge production.
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The Fifth Element: Social Justice Pedagogy through Spoken Word Poetry
The writing and performance of spoken word poetry can create moments of productive critical engagement. In The Fifth Element, Crystal Leigh Endsley charts her experience of working with a dynamic and diverse group of college students, who are also emerging artists, to explore the connection between spoken word and social responsibility. She considers how themes of activism, identity, and love intersect with the lived experiences of these students and how they use spoken word to negotiate resistance and to navigate through life. Endsley also examines the local and transnational communities where performances took place to shed light on concepts of social responsibility and knowledge production.
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The Fifth Element: Social Justice Pedagogy through Spoken Word Poetry

The Fifth Element: Social Justice Pedagogy through Spoken Word Poetry

by Crystal Leigh Endsley
The Fifth Element: Social Justice Pedagogy through Spoken Word Poetry

The Fifth Element: Social Justice Pedagogy through Spoken Word Poetry

by Crystal Leigh Endsley

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Overview

The writing and performance of spoken word poetry can create moments of productive critical engagement. In The Fifth Element, Crystal Leigh Endsley charts her experience of working with a dynamic and diverse group of college students, who are also emerging artists, to explore the connection between spoken word and social responsibility. She considers how themes of activism, identity, and love intersect with the lived experiences of these students and how they use spoken word to negotiate resistance and to navigate through life. Endsley also examines the local and transnational communities where performances took place to shed light on concepts of social responsibility and knowledge production.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438459875
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 12/26/2015
Series: SUNY series, Praxis: Theory in Action
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 184
File size: 456 KB

About the Author

Crystal Leigh Endsley is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue

1. Mic Check

2. From the Inside Out

3. When the Audience Claps Back

4. Acts of Love

5. Been Around the World

Appendix: Ashe, Ashe, Amen
References
Index
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