Season 4: Ep.6 The Religion of Hip Hop

About this episode

This episode features a conversation with Dr. Daniel White Hodge about the intersection of Hip Hop and religion through a Latinx perspective.

Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Daniel White Hodge. With 23 years of academic scholarship and teaching, he is a recognized Hip Hop Studies expert & rhetorical cultural literary scholar and professor of communications and department chair of the Communication Arts Department at North Park University in Chicago.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres

Guest: Dr. Daniel White Hodge

Topics covered

• Hip Hop
• Latinx voices
• immigration
• mass migration
• colonization
• faith traditions

Keywords

• Hip Hop
• religion
• Latinx
• immigration
• cultural studies
• Dr. Daniel White Hodge
• communication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: North Park University

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