...Whitney A. Peoples Abstract This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have...

...-civil rights era. Grounded in the works of Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and Jewelle Gomez, I examine how media representations of Ndegeocello coupled with her lyrics and music demonstrate the complexities and contradictions of “hip-hop feminism.” In particular, the 1990s represent...

... to construct their own dynamic and multidimensional representations in ways that find parallels within African feminisms. In this study, more than three hundred songs produced by women hip hop artists were surveyed. The study revealed diverse expressions of feminist identities, implicit and explicit rejections...

... discourse regarding the representation of women in contemporary popular music, and particularly in hip-hop. This issue's three organizing themes-"Hip-Hop (and) Feminism"; "Sight and Sound"; and "Rage against the Machine"-address the debates and intergenerational tensions regarding the liberatory potential...

... . Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press . Durham Aisha . 2007 . “ Using [Living Hip Hop] Feminism: Redefining an Answer (to) Rap .” In Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology , edited by Durham Aisha , Pough G. D. , Raimist R. , and Richardson E. , 304 – 12...

... . Povinelli Elizabeth . 2006 . Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Pough Gwendolyn D. 2003 . “ Do The Ladies Run This? Some Thoughts on Hip Hop Feminism .” In Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21 st Century...

... relations. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers. She specializes in black feminist theory, black women's intellectual history, hip hop feminism and race and gender representations in popular culture. She is also a regular contributor...

... even in contemporary black feminist scholarship. 2 Joan Morgan asserts that "black-on-black love" is the centerpiece of her hip-hop feminism (Morgan 1995, 152), Gwendolyn Pough argues that the labor of contemporary black feminism should be articulating a "message ofself..love" (Pough 2003, 241...

...). Gender and feminist analyses of hip-hop are expanding the discourse not only of hip-hop studies but of broader critiques on black sexual politics, masculinity, queer subjectivities, and feminism (Cheney 2005; Collins 2005; Clay 2007). Gwendolyn Pough's (2004) historiography of black women in hip-hop...

... in an important new form of feminist politics or merely being entertained by it" (Collins 2006, 193). Although hip-hop feminism does not address the structural foundations of women's oppression per se, Collins remarks that it does invoke an "everyday feminism" tacitly conveyed by mothers to daughters...

...) is a new work that productively advances the discussion of black women's sexuality in relation to hip-hop culture. In considering how second-wave feminism and the civil rights and black power movements have contributed to the ways in which young black men and women of the hip-hop generation experience sex...

... to negotiate a Black feminist life in the Nordics. We conclude with “Out in the Streets,” Natalia Koutsougera’s Media Matters piece, which provides an anthropological portrayal of Greece’s hip-hop landscape through the exploration of two hip-hop scenes: underground and dance. In this article, Koutsougera...

...Paula J. Giddings PAULA J. GIDDINGS Editor'sPreface I confess that when Janell Hobson and R. Dianne Bartlow, co-editors of "Representin': Women, Hip-Hop, and Popular Music," offered to put together a special issue for Meridians,I was a little skeptical. Myview of hip-hop was filtered through...

... theWesternHemispheres,eries edited by Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer (New York:Pro-Quest Information & Learning, 2006). ANDREANA CLAY is an assistant professor at San Francisco State University where she teaches courses on hip-hop culture, popular culture, and contemporary theory in the Sociology Department. She has...

... space of artistic and activist expression around the African continent. Msia Kibona Clark’s essay “Feminisms in African Hip Hop” extends a growing corpus of critical work on this powerful cultural form. The essay maps the complex relation of female artists to masculine dominance within hip hop and also...

..." over heavy funk bass and drum production to Sista D's fun and party lyrics accompanied byMid-West and Down South musical production to JV's straight hip-hop,4 Chicanas show depth and diversity in their music. While they speak on many topics, their representations of sexuality and sexual politics...

.... Sunaina Maira discusses, for example, the ways that Indian American youth in New YorkCity take up oppositional black identity by temporarily adopting characteristics of hip-hop style without engaging the specific SHI REEN ROSHANRAVAN PASSING-AS-IF: MODEL-MINORITY SUBJECTIVITY 9 community struggles...

... ed. New York: Routledge. 2004. BlackSexualPolitics:AfricanAmericans,Gendera, ndtheNewRacism. New York: Routledge. 2006. FromBlackPowerto Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Cummings, Jozen. 2004. "Spelman Says NO to Nelly Despite His Good Cause...

...), the Federation of Domestic Workers, the Black Lesbian National Seminar, and the National Front for Women in Hip Hop, the Marchasought to reach out to all Black women involved in all sorts of social change efforts in an exceptionally wide range of places and spaces, urban and rural, governmental, religious, trade...

... deities Orixás or Orishas), blogs, Facebook pages, chats, spoken poetry, and hip hop events. These events took place along with the more standard fare of lectures, debates, conferences, demonstrations, gatherings of domestic and sex workers, and other “sectoral” meetings of Black (cis- and trans-) women...