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Title:
Stare in the darkness : the limits of hip-hop and Black politics
Author:
Spence, Lester K., author.
ISBN:
9780816676859
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttszrcCopies:
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