“Emerging from intersectional activism inspired and informed by the radical teachings of Hip Hop, this anthology offers first-hand accounts of how Hip Hop culture speaks truth to power taking action to address and eliminate oppression. Extremely timely, Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism is a must read for anyone interested in how diverse scholar-artist activists are taking action in their communities.” —Johnny Lupinacci, Associate Professor, Washington State University
“Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism is active resistance, the connecting of souls and communities through shared experiences of invisibility, silencing and hate. Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism allows us to reconnect with our corporal knowledge and those of our ancestors that encountered the same oppression and marginalization for generations. Hip Hop brings us ‘home’.” —Chelsie Acosta, National Coordinator, National Week of Action Against Incarcerating Youth
“Beyond the beat and lyric, Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism boldly shows the kinetic and active forces in Hip Hop that are pushing back on oppressive systems. For the young kids of today, or the aging beatheads, the collection of voices in Fight the Power: Breakin Down Hip Hop Activism inspire and educate its audience in creative and empowering ways to utilize their subcultural knowledge to fight back.” —Scott Robertson, Singer, Girlband
“A needed book fighting against the violence of white supremacy.” —Peace Studies Journal
“This book has powerful liberating agency with a genuine Freirean Pedagogy for marginalized groups who use hip-hop culture to build critical consciousness and activism. It definitely provides a platform and a voice to the voiceless, by promoting emancipating pop culture narratives/storytelling that counter narrow-minded views of the world by means of offering social, racial, and economic insights to justice, that forces mainstream society to see the invisible/disenfranchised.” —Cesar A. Rossatto, Professor, University of Texas, El Paso
“This book is timely, provocative, and insightful as it explores and unravels the relations between hip hop and social change. It should be of interest to both hip hop heads and hardcore activists, as well as a general inquisitive public. Definitely worth the read!” —Jason Del Gandio, Co-editor, Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution

Arash Daneshzadeh, Ed.D., currently teaches in the Graduate School of Education at the University of San Francisco and as faculty in the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Penitentiary. Dr. Daneshzadeh is Editor-in-Chief of The Transformative Justice Journal, National Chair for Save the Kids from Incarceration, and co-editor of Understanding, Dismantling, and Disrupting the Prison-to-School Pipeline.

Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., scholar-activist, is an editor of the Peace Studies Journal and a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Salt Lake Community College. He is the co-founder of disability pedagogy, terrorization, and ecoability and has published over one-hundred articles and forty books.

Chandra Ward, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research focuses on democratizing and leveraging technology to address extant urban issues.

Ahmad R. Washington, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at The University of Louisville. He teaches in the School Counseling program, where he works with pre-service school counseling students as they prepare to transition into the profession.