Academic Literature

by Anthony Keith Jr. - Advocating for the advancement of hip-hop–based education, critical qualitative research, and leadership for educational equity, I explain a theory of hip-hop educational leadership and discuss findings from my hip-hopography of hip-hop educational leaders who are spoken word artists, poets, rappers, and/or emcees and serve as community partners inside urban high schools across the United States.

by Anthony Keith Jr. - Inspired by the second wave of Hip-Hop educational research, I asked three questions in this study: 1) What is Hip-Hop educational leadership? 2)What are the conditions HipHop educational leaders make possible for Black and Brown youth learning and engagement in schools? and 3) How does spoken word poetry function in the lives of Hip-Hop educational leaders?

by Anthony Keith Jr. & Crystal Leigh Endsley - This article traces the development of Blackout Poetic Transcription (BPT) as a critical methodology for artist-scholars engaged with Hip Hop pedagogy in higher education spaces.

by Lori Patton, Toby Jenkins, Gloria Howell, and Anthony Keith Jr. - Black creative educational experiences (BCEEs) are participatory, performative cultural experiences created by or for students, centering Black artistic expression, aesthetics, and engagement. Using African-centered frameworks, we provide a methodological guide for examining BCEEs in education research, which includes centering Black “ways of knowing,” validating creative expressions cultivated by and for Black people, acknowledging the influence of Black creative expression on research and practice, considering researcher positionalities as observers and cultivators of Black creative expression, and viewing Black creative expression as knowledge production.

by Anthony Keith Jr. - COVID-19 is changing the landscape of American public education. In particular, where and how students are learning has shifted from the classroom to the living room. Certainly, Black youth are learning where they live, and many are speaking in their first language, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), more often and with greater fluency than the American standard. What will become the metanarrative about Black youth performance on standardized English assessments in comparison with White youth in a post-pandemic era?

Abstract: Black masculinity was examined within the context of sites where public platonic practices of affection amongst Black men are evident. An overview of the limited scholarship and research on Black male homosocial experiences within sports, hip-hop culture, the Black church, Black barbershops, and Black fraternities were explored.

by Anthony Keith Jr. - Facilitating discussions about race can be challenging for even the most experienced educator. In this article, Anthony Keith provides a framework for using multimedia resources to guide student reflection and discussion on race.