Youth
culture expert to speak Feb. 29
Dr.
Marc Lamont Hill, an expert on youth culture, identity, and educational
processes, is guest speaker Feb. 29 at Shippensburg University.
His presentation, “The War Against
Youth,” is at 7:30 p.m. in Old Main Chapel and is free and open to
the public. It is sponsored by the Black Heritage
Committee, Office of Social Equity, Mu
lticultural Student Affairs, and the departments of English, history/philosophy,
sociology/anthropology and teacher education. A book signing will follow his
talk.
Hill
is an associate professor of English education and anthropology at Columbia University.
He argues that there is a war on youth in our society. While policy makers
demonize kids who listen to hip hop music or wear baggy jeans, Hill argues that
the needs of youth today are no different from those of young people in the
past. He champions the contributions that youth make to “democracy, American
popular culture, and to the very fabric of American society.”
In
addition to his teaching duties, he is a political contributor to the Fox News
Channel where he regularly appears on The O’Reilly Factor. A Philadelphia
native, Hill is the author of numerous books including Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop,
Pedagogy and
the Politics of Identity, which he
will sign after his lecture.
For more information contact Dr. John
Bloom at jdbloo@ship.edu.
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