Fight the Power

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.

“A book of amazing interviews from powerful radical Hip Hop activists that are movers and shakers for social justice and liberation.”—Arissa Media Group

• Don C. Sawyer III: Foreword – Clifton G. Sanders and Nathaniel “N8” Sanders: Preface Acknowledgements – Arash Daneshzadeh, Anthony J. Nocella II, Chandra Ward, and Ahmad Washington: Introduction: The Emergence of the 11th Element of Hip Hop – Anthony J. Nocella II: Chapter One: Interview with Lauren Leigh Kelly – Arash Daneshzadeh: Chapter Two: Interview with Eli Jacobs- Fantauzzi – Anthony J. Nocella II: Chapter Three: Interview with “Mic” Crenshaw – Anthony J. Nocella II: Chapter Four: Interview with Reies Romero – Chandra Ward: Chapter Five: Interview with Katrina Benally – Ahmad Washington: Chapter Six: Interview with Selinda Guerrero – Ahmad Washington: Chapter Seven: Interview with Antonio Quintana – Ahmad Washington: Chapter Eight: Interview with Jared A. Ball – David Michael: Afterword – Contributors – Index.