The hip hop & Obama reader /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Gosa, Travis L., 1979- editor. Nielson, Erik, 1976- editor. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Introduction: The State of Hip Hop in the Age of Obama
- Part I. Move the Crowd: Hip Hop Politics in the United States and Abroad
- 1. Message from the Grassroots: Hip Hop Activism, Millennials, and the Race for the White House
- 2. It's Bigger Than Barack: Hip Hop Political Organizing, 2004-2013
- 3. "There Are No Saviors": An Interview with Kevin Powell
- 4. "Obama Nation": Hip Hop and Global Protest
- 5. "Record! I Am Arab": Paranoid Arab Boys, Global Ciphers, and Hip Hop Nationalism
- Part II. Change We Can Believe in? The Contested Discourse of Obama and Hip Hop
- 6. Obama, Hip Hop, African American History, and "Historical Revivalism"
- 7. "Change That Wouldn't Fill a Homeless Man's Cup Up": Filipino American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama
- 8. Obama/Time: The President in the Hip Hop Nation
- 9. One Day It Will All Make Sense: Obama, Politics, and Common Sense
- 10. "New Slaves": The Soul of Hip Hop Sold to Da Massah in the Age of Obama
- Part III. Represent: Gender and Language in the Obama Era
- 11. YouTube, Bad Bitches, and an M.I.C. (Mom-in-Chief): On the Digital Seduction of Black Girls in Participatory Hip-Hop Spaces
- 12. A Performative Account of Black Girlhood
- 13. The King's English: Obama, Jay Z, and the Science of Code Switching
- 14. My President Is Black: Speech Act Theory and Presidential Allusions in the Lyrics of Rap Music
- Afterword: when will black lives matter? Neoliberalism, democracy, and the Queering of American Activism in the Post-Obama Era
- Index