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Alumnus and high school students explore imperialism through rap\r\n\r\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe history lessons echoing through Tilton Hall last week were hardly standard classroom fare. For one thing, they rhymed. And you could dance to them.<\/p>\n

Clark University’s Hiatt Center for Urban Education<\/a> teamed with University Park Campus School<\/a> teacher Max Stern ’12, MAT ’13 (shown above with his students) to stage the second annual R.A.P.F.A.I.R. (Revolutions and Protests that Fought Against Imperial Rule), starring Stern’s ninth-grade U.S. history class.<\/p>\n

The UPCS students competed for prizes and notoriety in the rap\/slam poetry competition for a panel of guest judges.<\/p>\n

The R.A.P.F.A.I.R. is a display of student work on the histories of people who have fought against oppression, exploitation, and imperialism to achieve independence and self-rule. Among the topics students addressed were the Partition of Africa, the rubber terror in the Congo, French colonialism of Indochina, the Opium Wars in China, the Spanish-American War, and United States imperialism in Latin America.<\/p>\n

The event gave students the opportunity to share their research through hip-hop, focusing on the countries that represent the student demographics in the UPCS ninth grade.<\/p>\n

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