Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. Her work has appeared in numerous books and journals, including the English Journal, Urban Education, The Urban Review, and the Journal of LGBT Youth. Awards and honors 2016 Nasir Jones Fellowship at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University 2018 Georgia House of Representatives Resolution 2018 University of Pittsburgh Visiting Scholar 2018 University of Houston-Downtown Scholar-in-Residence 2018 40 under 40 Georgia State University Alumni Award 2019 Rhodes College Scholar-in-Residence Videos Hip hop, grit, and academic success at TEDxUGA We Want to Do More Than Survive. University of Georgia Professor Bettina Love talks about her book, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, in which she shares her thoughts on how educators, parents, and community leaders can advocate for “education freedom” for students through civic engagement and activism. Selected works Books (author) Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. (Peter Lang, 2012). We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. (Beacon Press, 2019). Articles "‘I See Trayvon Martin’: What Teachers Can Learn from the Tragic Death of a Young Black Male." The Urban Review, vol. 46, no. 2, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013, pp. 292–306, doi:10.1007/s11256-013-0260-7. "Urban Storytelling: How Storyboarding, Moviemaking, and Hip-Hop-Based Education Can Promote Students’ Critical Voice.” The English Journal, High school edition, vol. 103, no. 5, National Council of Teachers of English, May 2014, pp. 53–58. "A Ratchet Lens: Black Queer Youth, Agency, Hip Hop, and the Black Ratchet Imagination.” Educational Researcher, vol. 46, no. 9, SAGE Publications, Dec. 2017, pp. 539–47, doi:10.3102/0013189X17736520. "Dear White Teachers: You Can't Love Your Black Students If You Don't Know Them". Education Week, March 18, 2019. References External links Interview with the ASCD on the meaning of Abolitionist Education 21st-century American educators African-American educators African-American women academics American women academics African-American academics Black studies scholars African-American non-fiction writers University of Pittsburgh alumni American non-fiction writers American women non-fiction writers University of Georgia faculty Northern Kentucky University faculty Georgia State University alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women educators 21st-century African-American women 21st-century African-American people