Description: Exploring the often difficult relations between hip-hop and schooling, Slam School builds a new and surprising argument: the very reasons teachers and administrators might resist the deliberate introduction of hip-hop into the planned curriculum are what make hip-hop so pedagogically vital.
Review Quotes: "The book illuminates on the consequences of the deficit model of schooling in American society; it also describes the reality of racism, marginalisation, and exclusion of minorities in the school context, providing a solution to improve the quality of learning and teaching for African American and Latino students."--Rupam Saran