Dr. Christopher Emdin is the Robert A. Naslund Endowed Chair in Curriculum Theory and Professor of Education at the University of Southern California; where he also serves as Director of youth engagement and community partnerships at the USC Race and Equity Center. He is also Scholar/Griot in Residence at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He previously served as Associate Director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education and Director of the Science Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. The creator of the #HipHopEd social media movement and the Science Genius program, he is the author of the New York Times bestseller For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'all Too and Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation. Connect with him on Twitter @chrisemdin or on his website, www.chrisemdin.com.

Foreword: "I Am a Ratchetmom" by jessica Care moore
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Dr. White
CHAPTER 2
Oreo
CHAPTER 3
Ratchet as Tool
CHAPTER 4
Ratchet as Being and Freeing
CHAPTER 5
Elevators, Haters, and Suckas
CHAPTER 6
Cages and Conditioning
CHAPTER 7
Clones
CHAPTER 8
Soul Wounds and White Gauze
CHAPTER 9
Frenemies and Energy
CHAPTER 10
Toward Healing: A Cure for Impostor Syndrome
CHAPTER 11
The Get Back
CHAPTER 12
Restitution Over Rescue Missions
Discussion Questions
Notes
Index