On September 28-29, 2012, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation presented the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference:
Aug 1, 2019

Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination

On September 28-29, 2012, the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation presented the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: "Hip Hop, Education and Expanding the Archival Imagination." The Tupac Amaru Shakur Conference was designed to combine AUC Woodruff Library's mission to facilitate scholarly research and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation's mission to encourage hip hop curriculum. Works posted to the Library's website from the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference may be downloaded, archived, and/or printed for noncommercial, educational, and research use. Any further use or dissemination of these works requires the express written permission of the copyright holders.

To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination, that explored Shakurs life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Featured speakers included Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University;  Dr. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Vice Provost for Diversity and Professor of History at the University of Connecticut; Kevin Powell, author and political activist; and Dr. Akinyele K. Umoja, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University.
 The twelve presentations were submitted by panelists at the 2012 conference. Information for each author may be found in the section entitled Panelist Biographies.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination, that explored Shakurs life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Featured speakers included Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University;  Dr. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Vice Provost for Diversity and Professor of History at the University of Connecticut; Kevin Powell, author and political activist; and Dr. Akinyele K. Umoja, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University.
 These documents represent fifteen papers submitted by panelists at the 2012 conference. Information for each author may be found in the section entitled Panelist Biographies.  The papers have been reformatted only to maintain similarity in font style and margins.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination, that explored Shakurs life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Featured speakers included Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University;  Dr. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Vice Provost for Diversity and Professor of History at the University of Connecticut; Kevin Powell, author and political activist; and Dr. Akinyele K. Umoja, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University.
 The twelve presentations were submitted by panelists at the 2012 conference. Information for each author may be found in the section entitled Panelist Biographies.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, "Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination," that explored Shakur's life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hip Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, Vice Provost for Diversity and a Professor of History at the University of Connecticut served as a featured speaker at the conference.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation "2Pac and the Role His Work Played in the Critical Development of Men of Color Activist Scholars in Their Efforts to Create 'Thug Mansion' " by Isidoro Guzman and Robert Unzueta II.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation "Tupac Amaru Shakur in the Archives and the Classroom: Outcomes from a Gender, Race and Religion in Hip Hop Seminary Course" by Dr. Shanesha R.F. Brooks-Tatum, Reverend Christopher Reeves, and Reverend Jerrie'Me Wright.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation "The Recipe of Hip Hop: The Application, Duplication, Replication, Incarceration and Reincarnation of Culture & Influence" by Annette Jackson, Ken Ford, Montell Jordan and Michael E. Johnson.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
Presentations include "Hip Hop and Information Literacy: Critically Incorporating Hip Hop in the Library Instruction Curriculum" by Dave Ellenwood; "The Hip Hop Pedagogical Matrix: Merging Business, Communications & Entertainment Curriculums" by Dr. Michelle Witherspoon; and "Teach Me How to Urban: The Preparedness of Art Teachers to Teach Students Like Tupac" by Lisa Whittington.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
Presentations include: "Ain't Trickin If You Got It: Identifying the Trickster Tradition in Contemporary Rap Music" by Courtney Terry;  "T.H.U.G.  L. I. F. E.: A Re-Examination of Black Maleness in the 20th Century Through the Art and Lives of James Baldwin, Richard Wright and Tupac Shakur" by Sidney A. Robbins.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
Presentations include "Preserving Beats: Hardware Samplers and Floppy Disks" by Justin Kovar; "Collecting the Underground: Archiving Hip Hop" by Rachel Appel; and "Acquiring Hip Hop Through Recording Studios: Founding a Hip Hop Archive at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign" by Marten Stromberg.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
Presentations include "Tupac's Archives as Documentary Heritage of  Genre and a Generation" by Anonymouz;  "Generational Dissonance and the Archive: The Selector's Dilemma" by Murray Forman; and "Painting a Perfect Picture: Democratizing Provenance in the Appraisal of Hip Hop Archives" by Jarrett M. Drake.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation "Better Dayz: Tupac's Critical Call for a Better Legal System" by Andre Douglas Pond Cummings, Pamela Bridgewater, and Nick Sciullo.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation  "Documenting Houston Hip Hop" by Julie Grob, Maco L. Faniel, and Langston Collin Wilkins.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination, that explored Shakur's life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hip Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event.  Dr. Akinyele Umoja, educator and scholar-activist and an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Georgia State University, served as a featured speaker at the conference.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation, "The ABC's of Being Black: How Middle School Black Students Construct Their Racial Identities Amongst Culturally Biased Curriculum" by Ryan Glover, Windsor Jordan, Jr., and Dalia Bishop.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation "All Eyez on 'Pac': A Thug Poet's Legacy from the Street to the Academy & Beyond" by Dr. Stephane Dunn, Tara D. Miller, Dr. Corrie Claiborne, Dr. Samuel T. Livingston, and Dr. David Wall Rice.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, �Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination,� that explored Shakur�s life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hip Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, a Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University, served as a featured speaker at the conference.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
Presentations include "The Tupac Shakur Reader" by Dr. James Peterson and Georgia M. Roberts and "The Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection" by Courtney Chartier and Stacy Jones.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
To promote teaching and research of the Shakur Collection, the AUC Woodruff Library held a two-day conference September 28-29, 2012, �Hip Hop, Education, and Expanding the Archival Imagination,� that explored Shakur�s life and work as well as Hip Hop archives and studies. Hip Hop scholars, educators, students and artists from around the country convened for the event. Mr. Kevin Powell, a leading political and cultural voice, community activist and award winning writer, served as a featured speaker at the conference.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination
A panel presentation, "Tupac Shakur, Authentic Hip Hop Leadership, and the HipHop 2020 Curriculum Project HBCU Classroom" by Dr. Jocelyn Wilson, Zaneta J. Smith, Joshua Moore, Brandon Frame, and Dr. Emery Petchauer.
Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection Conference: Hip Hop Education & Expanding the Archival Imagination