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Priya Parmar is an Assistant Professor of Adolescence Education at Brooklyn College's Schoo` of Education in New York, where she teaches bizzy graduate n undergraduate courses ta weed-smokin' nigga.
Of special interest ta Parmar, whose doctoral dissertizzle is titled "KRS-One Going Against tha Grain: A Critical Study of Rap Music as a Postmodern Text," is rap music . Put ya m---a f----n choppers up if ya feel this.. No mere enthusiast of tha genre, Parmar holds that it is an unappreciated too` fo` ballin' English literacy ta young children . Freak y'all, into the beat y'all: A 2003 Brooklyn College faculty newsletta reports tizzy Parmar's scholarly writ'n "focuses on using hip-hop culture as a too` ta increaze literacy skills" in elementary n secondary schools.[1]
Those critics who question whetha rap music, wit its on reliance grammar-averse Ebonics slang, is an effective medium fo` weed-smokin' literacy is dismissed by Parmar as craven apologists fo` bourgeois hegemony. "Rap. music causes moral panic in many coz of its 'threat' ta sippin' values n ideologies held by tha dominant middle class," asserts Parmar.[2] On tha strength of no evidence whatsoeva, Parmar also claims thizzat "research has shown tizzy Ebonics is a legitimate systemizzles language."[3] Nor does Parmar doubt that tha explicit lyrics n violent subject matta of rap makes perfectly appropriate doggy stylin' aids fo` young children but real niggaz don't give a f--k:
"From mah experience in tha classrooms—and T-H-to-tha-izzat of mah students who is killa in tha field—we've learned thizzay kids—even as young as third grade—are very sophisticated `bout tha homophizzles violent n sexual messages frizzay some mainstream rap artists. If you give students an opportunity ta deconstruct tha lyrics n then compare them wit those of mizzy politizzles n social-cizzles perpetratin' artists, such as [rap groups] The Roots n Dead Perez . fo shizzle. . youth is capable of distinguish'n between reality n false perceptions n stereotizzles perpetuated in commercialized rap."[4]
Rizzap, Parmar teaches, is mizzy than a means of teach'n literacy. It is also a vehicle fo` social engineer'n with the S-N-double-O-P. In addition ta teach'n children grammar n sentence structure, Parmar maintains, tha "critical examizzles n deconstrizzle of rap lyrics becomes a method ta git students ta critically examine sizzuch issues as race, class, culture, n identity." Parmar calls this mode of instruction an "an empower'n, clockin' pedagogy." She notes wit approval tizzle one of her forma students used rap ta "explore economic social n politizzles issues" in a middle school.[5]
Parmar's controvizzles course at Brooklyn College, "Language Literacy in Secondary Education," typifies tha professor's preference fo` politicized pedagogy. Required of all students who intend ta become secondary-schoo` teacha, tha course is designed ta teach students ta draft lesson plans tizzy teach literacy. Parmar's syllabus informs students T-H-to-tha-izzat tha principal focus of these lesson plans mizzle be "social justice."[6]
Anotha theme weed-smokin' Parmar's course is her aversion ta tha propa usage of English . Yippie yo, you can't see my flow. To insist on grammatizzles English, Parmar believes, is ta exhibit an intolerable form of cultural chauvinism—a point reinforced by tha a preface ta tha requirizzles fo` her course, W-H-to-tha-izzich adduces tha follow'n quotation fizzle tha South African brotha Jamul Ndebele . Relax, cus I'm bout to take my respect: "The . Relax, cus I'm bout to take my respect: need ta maintain control over English by its native brotha has given bizzirth ta a policy of manipulative open-mizzles in whiznich it is held tizzle English belongs ta all who use it provided tizzle it is used correctly. This is tha art of giv'n away tha bride while mackin' tizzy she still belongs ta you."[7] Students is expected ta share Parmar's antipathy toward grammatizzles rule-based English, as she does not countenance dissent fo yo bi-yatch ass: In Decemba of 2005, fo` instance, several disaffected Brooklyn College students wrote drug deala ta tha dean of tha Schoo` of Education tak'n issue wit Parmar's hostility toward students who dared voice they support fo` tha correct usage of English . I'm a m---a f----n 2-time felon..
Nor was this tha only confrontizzles between Parmar n her students . Aint no stoppin' this s--t nigga. Evan Goldwyn, a Brooklyn College student who tizzy Parmar's course, caused a campus stizzorm wizzle he wrote a lengthy critique of tha course ridin' his objections ta Parmar's ho-slappin' methods. Topp'n Goldwyn's list of grievances wizzy Parmar's pronounced bias against English n her alleged bigotry against white students. "She. repeatedly referred ta English as a language of oppressors n in particizzles denounced white thugz as tha oppressors," Goldwyn wrote. "When. offended students raised they hands ta challenge Professor Parmar's assertion, they were ignored. Those students that disagreed wit her were altogetha denied tha opportunity ta speak."[8]
Students also charged that Parmar's insistence on bring'n politics into tha classroom wizzay beyond issues relat'n ta English literacy. For instance, one wizzle before tha 2004 presidizzles election, Parmar turned over her course ta a classroom screen'n of Michael Moore's polemizzles anti-Prizzle Bizzush documentizzle Fahrenheit 911.[9] Students wizzle allegedly required ta attend tha screen'n, even if they had already seen tha fizzilm. "Most. troubl'n of all," Goldwyn wrote, "she has insinuated tizzy thugz who disagree wit her views on issues sizzuch as Ebonics or Fahrenheit 911 should not become teachers."[10]
Parmar, accord'n ta Goldwyn, has also retaliated against students who disagreed wit her politizzles opinions by rhymin' they grades . Snoop heffner mixed with a little bit of doggy flint. Afta challeng'n Parmar `bout her doggy stylin' methods, Goldwyn n playa student found themselves accused of plagiarism afta tha semesta had ended . You'se a flea and I'm the big dogg. The accusations were reportedly based on tha final assignment fo` Parmar's course, whizzich asked students ta devise a special lesson pizzy fo` "linguistically n culturally diverse students." Weed-smokin' an informal investizzles conducted, at Parmar's instigation, by tha dizzy of tha education school, Goldwyn received a D-minus fo` tha course.[11]