Integrating the selective reconstruction of the past with an imagined future, narrative identity is a person’s internalized and evolving story of the self, functioning to provide life with some degree of meaning, purpose, and temporal coherence (McAdams & McLean, 2013). Moreover, narrative identity has been found to be associated with...
This dissertation explores hip-hop as a moral philosophy in action; a set of aesthetic and ethical values that manifest in young people’s perspective about the good life. Hip-hop is an arts movement of rap, movement, and style originating among Black and Latinx youth in the South Bronx during the late...