Stare in the darkness : the limits of hip-hop and Black politics /
Rap's critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the "hip-hop mayor" of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. A growing number of black activists and artists claim that...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2011
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Rap's critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the "hip-hop mayor" of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. A growing number of black activists and artists claim that rap and hip-hop are the basis of an influential new urban social movement. Simultaneously, black citizens evince concern with the effect that rap and hip-hop culture exerts on African American communities. According to a recent Pew survey conducted on the opinions of Black Americans, 71 percent of black |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816676859 0816676852 9781452947068 1452947066 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
