by admin | Apr 30, 2006 | Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm
In short, yes. Nick Winter recently published a paper in The American Journal of Political Science arguing that social security was in effect racialized in the exact opposite way as Affirmative Action had been racialized: In this article I argue that the framing of...
by admin | Apr 27, 2006 | Education, Hip-hop |
Political scientists like myself have surveys on the determinants of black political ideology, on political participation, on sexual attitudes. But examining the cultural politics literature, it appears as if no one has sought to apply the various things we’ve learned...
by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Gender and Politics, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
Within the subculture literature a number of scholars have talked about the virtual absence of women. Looking at the works that attempted to analyse the punk movement in Great Britain for example, it is almost as if girls weren’t present. No girls at the clubs, no...
by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
In the article “Keepin’ It Real–Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity” author Andreana Clay expands on the concept of “cultural capital” elucidated by Bourdieu by analyzing how black youth use hip-hop to authenticate their identities. Clay has this to say...
by admin | Apr 2, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Hip-hop, Pop Culture
I read a couple of pieces dealing specifically with gangsta rap. The first, Nothin’ but a “G” thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap by Eithne Quinn and the second is an article from Social Text using gangsta rap as a way to interrogate Cornel West’s...
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