Paulo Freire

Academic Hype Man #3: Dr. Mauricio R. Magaña and Cartographies of Youth Resistance

Author: Dr. Maurice (Mauricio) R. Magaña Title: Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico Publisher: Routledge Paperback: 234 pages ISBN: 9780520344624 https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520344624/cartographies-of-youth-resistance  (Buy this book, dang it!) If I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard some type of, “The problem with kids today…” I would be a pretty wealthy guy. It’s funny because this …

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Digging Deep on the Flobots’ Song Pray -or- Using an Academic Analysis of Whiteness as an Excuse to Fanboy

Prologue for the long read: It is not a secret that I really love the Flobots and their music. I remember being introduced to their song Handlebars during an interlude on Democracy Now! several years back and I was immediately hooked.  Recently, their song Pray jumped into my top-10 anti-racist songs of all time because there are no other songs I can think of …

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