ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of resistance, central to the development of cultural studies research in Britain and beyond. Much of the early work on resistance from scholars affiliated with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies focused on post-war, working-class subcultures such as punk and mod. The chapter describes the question of what youth resistance does, in the context of a project designed to improve students experience in a high school. It explores student resistance's nuances of form, cause, and effect, in order to learn from it. The chapter discusses how student resistance—to school in general, as well as to our initiative—might become a resource for, rather than impediment to, change. In order to better understand student resistance to schooling as it relates to the use of hip-hop based education in high school classrooms, the chapter explores student resistance in the subject school through the frame of Solorzano and Delgado Bernal’s four forms of student resistance.
