White Hodge Services

Welcome to White Hodge Services! This site is hosted by Dr. Daniel White Hodge who is an author, Hip Hop scholar, cultural critic, & diversity & inclusion, expert. Dr. Hodge has taught at Cal State University Northridge’s Religious Studies department, Cal State Los Angeles’ Pan African Studies department, as well as Fuller Theological Seminary’s school of intercultural studies. As a speaker, writer, and activist he has spoken on many college campuses including Stanford University, UCLA, USC, and Union Theological Seminary. He teaches around the world on subjects such as Black popular culture, personality, and the self, Hip Hop discourse, and race/ethnicity within religion. Dr. Hodge consults and is available to speak on a variety of subjects including Hip Hop theology, race & ethnicity in the trump era, colonization in evangelicalism, & intercultural communication.

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Welcome to Dr. Daniel White Hodge’s website. Thanks for checking this site out! Please, take a moment to check out the resources that are offered here, and feel free to reach out to us with any questions. In the meantime, check out the latest happenings in Dr. D’s world:

Check our Dr. D’s latest Edited Volume:

Dr. Hodge’s new Textbook on Intercultural Communication:

Dr. Hodge recently published a student, project-learning based text on Intercultural Communication. Combining his 19-year classroom experience teaching this class with an E-Learning approach, this textbook situates intersectionality, critical race theory, media, & intercultural communication frameworks to create a new type of textbook. This text grounds intersectionality with intercultural communication theory to develop intercultural competencies. This text is designed for both the student and the educator; what is meant by that is as many textbooks are “text-heavy” and while presenting good frameworks and definitions, keep students from engaging deeply in the material and apply what they are learning. This text attempts to do just that by exacting core terms, definitions, theories, and materials from intercultural communication and allowing the teacher to do just that—teach. Students will find interactive questions, video clips, and real-time issues that they can engage with as they learn to apply intercultural principles. Each chapter is written so that students may get through it while processing the material directly with their teacher. This text comes from almost two decades of classroom teaching experience across a variety of colleges in a diverse setting of students. The goal here is the educate and have students apply what they have learned. The text is designed for undergraduate student in an entry-level course of intercultural communication—a required general Ed course in many college curriculums. Lastly, this text is an E-Book, meaning, the content can be updated in real-time and as the field develops—this alone is crucial as our classrooms are quickly moving to an E-Learning platform and the demand for authenticity is truly a value for the incoming generation of college students. This, is your text!

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Dr. Hodge talks about Tupac, faith, race, & connections to religion:

Doc Hodge sits back down with Dr. David Dault and discusses his new book on Tupac Amaru Shakur on Things Not Seen:

Dr. Hodge had a chance to give some insight into a BBC documentary on Gospel Hip Hop:

Dr. Dan’s latest book: (Click on image for a sample chapter)

Hear Doc Hodge talk about his last book, Homeland Insecurity on the Fascinating Podcast:

With 21 years of academic work experience, Daniel White Hodge, Ph.D., is a recognized Hip Hop culture expert & cultural literacy communications, scholar. Dr. Hodge is Professor of Intercultural Communications, department chair of the Communication Arts Department, and research lead on the Catalyst_ _ 606 program at small liberal arts University. His research interests are at the intersections of faith, Hip Hop culture, race/ethnicity, & young adult ethnic-minority emerging generations. Dr. Hodge has worked in the young adult and Hip Hop context for over 25 years and continues to focus on justice & disparity issues as it concerns ethnic-minority populations. His seven books are Heaven Has A Ghetto: The Missiological Gospel & Theology of Tupac Amaru Shakur (VDM 2009), The Soul Of Hip Hop: Rimbs, Timbs, & A Cultural Theology (IVP 2010), Hip Hop’s Hostile Gospel: A Post Soul Theological Exploration (Brill Academic 2017) Homeland Insecurity: A Hip Hop Missiology for the Post-Civil Rights Context (IVP Academic 2018), Baptized In Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel According to Tupac Amaru Shakur (Cascade Books Popology Series 2019), Intercultural Communication: A Societal Approach to Developing Intercultural Competencies (Kendall Hunt Publishing 2020), and Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Peter Lang Academic 2021). Dr. Hodge is currently working on an edited volume scheduled for publication in early 2022, Marveling Religion (Lexington Academic Press).

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