“The Rose That Grew from Concrete”: Postmodern Blackness and New English Education
David E. Kirkland

For David E. Kirkland, the New English Education locates English language arts in the realities of
youth, where texts emerge from students’ lives, and the notions of reading and writing in English
classrooms are open to revision. Kirkland reflects on how “postmodern Black experience, especially as seen in hip-hop, gives English teachers one way of envisioning the New English Education.”

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