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2018
Volume 114, Issue 6
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

In this article, a Black male English educator and White female middle school English language arts teacher share insights from their cross-racial collaborative practitionerinquiry on a White teacher’s Hip Hop pedagogies with non-Black students.

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