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For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice
Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey and Adolphus G. Belk, Jr., Editors
For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social injustices, and then zoom in on artists whose work has accomplished these ends. The volume explores topics including education and pedagogy; the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration; electoral politics; gender and sexuality; and the global struggle for social justice. Ultimately, the book argues that Hip-Hop is much more than a musical genre or cultural form: Hip-Hop is a resistance mechanism.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Dedication
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Shout-Outs (Acknowledgments)
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Intro
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Section One: Activism or Perpetuation? Hip-Hoppers, Protest Movements, and Mass Incarceration
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1. Going Upstate
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2. This Is America
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3. Criminal Minded
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4. “And When They Wake Up”
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Section Two: Old-School and New-School Methods of Political Engagement
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5. Made You Look
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6. Everyday Rights
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7. “Don’t Call It a Comeback”
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8. Movement Music Revisited
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Section Three: Education and Social Justice
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9. Problematizing the Civil Rights Paradigm of Hip-Hop Studies
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10. “It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop”
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11. Hip-Hop’s Place in Campus Inclusion and Social Justice
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Section Four: Gender, Identity, and Sexuality in Hip-Hop
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12. That’s Them Hoes over There
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13. Public Grief and Collective Joy
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14. Atrevidas
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Section Five: Mixing It Up
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15. The Low Mays and the Transgression of Wo Lei Fei Fei
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16. Watch the Throne
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17. Rhymes, Beats, and Maize
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18. Native Transnational “Flows”
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Outro
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2022
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-13286-7 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12971-3 (ebook)