There Goes the Neighborhood: Hip Hop Creepin’ on a Come Up at the U

College Composition and Communication Feb 2007

There Goes the Neighborhood: Hip Hop Creepin’ on a Come Up at the U

Kermit E. Campbell

Abstract

This article offers a critical perspective on the default mode of freshman composition instruction, that is, its traditionally middle-class and white racial orientation. Although middle-classness and whiteness have been topics of critical interest among compositionists in recent years, perhaps the most effective challenge to this hegemony in the classroom is not in our textbooks or critical discourse but in what many of our students already consume, the ghettocentricity expressed in the music of rappers like Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Eminem.

Journal: College Composition and Communication
Published: 2007-02-01
DOI: 10.58680/ccc20075910
Topics: first-year composition discourse analysis multimodality race and writing

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