Ratchetdemic av Christopher Emdin

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<b>A revolutionary new educational model that encourages educators to provide spaces for students to display their academic brilliance without sacrificing their identities</b><br><br>Building on the ideas introduced in his <i>New York Times</i> best-selling book, <i>For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood</i>, Christopher Emdin introduces an alternative educational model that will help students (and teachers) celebrate ratchet identity in the classroom. <i>Ratchetdemic</i> advocates for a new kind of student identity—one that bridges the seemingly disparate worlds of the ivory tower and the urban classroom.<br><br>Because modern schooling often centers whiteness, Emdin argues, it dismisses ratchet identity (the embodying of “negative” characteristics associated with lowbrow culture, often thought to be possessed by people of a particular ethnic, racial, or socioeconomic status) as anti-intellectual and punishes young people for straying from these alleged “academi