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...Himanee Gupta-Carlson Abstract Hip-hop originated as an artistic form of protest among disenfranchised African Americans and is now a global vehicle of communication. A core of devotees known as b-boys and b-girls have dedicated themselves to using hip-hop as a political vehicle toward a better...

...Christopher Malone; George Martinez, Jr. Abstract This article argues that hip-hop is an “organic globalizer.” No matter its pervasiveness or its reach around the world, hip-hop ultimately remains a grassroots phenomenon that is born of the community from which it permeates. The authors contend...

... rapper, made several controversial comments about women, specifically female Hip Hop artists.1 When asked why he has never signed any woman to his Hip Hop label Maybach Music Group (MMG), Rick Ross retorted "I would end up fucking a female rapper and then fucking my business Up2 The rhetoric used by Ross...

... and interests of African Americans through New Orleans parading, of African American women and men through hip-hop, of the "blues people" through literature and music, and of American military veterans through the monuments we build to them. This sharing of experience occurs partly through the affective...

... equity. Fernandes presents the domestic and transnational factors fueling the rise of hip hop among Afro-Cuban youth beginning in the 1990s. Hip hop in Cuba cannot be reduced to one political agenda, however. "Underground" or "commercial," male or female, hip hop groups advocate capitalist consumerism...

... produced Hip Hop's record scratch, the "iron man" is central to an Afrofuturist tale of sabotaging a technological matrix to open up space for black freedom. 13Sylvia Wynter, "Jonkonnu in Jamaica," Jamaica Journal 4, no. 2 (1970): 35. 14Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black...

... Program at Saint Louis University. She has published on feminist theory, women and hip hop in Canada, and transnational feminist research methodology. She has a forthcoming edited volume, Mothering and Hip Hop Culture (Demeter, 2012), and is working on a book that debunks the myth of African anti-feminism...

... into a book tentatively titled Muncie, Indiana, and is developing a new book on women and community building in political hip-hop. The latter work has ISSN 0739-3148 print/ISSN 1469-9931 on-line/10/040637-3 © 2010 Caucus for a New Political Science DOl: 10.1080/07393148.2010.520449 638 Notes on Contributors...

... important story of our century, secreted within the story of colonialism and its aftermath. JOAN COCKS © 2007 Mount Holyoke College Patricia Hill Collins, From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006, 248 pp. Patricia Hill Collins begins...

... this music can and does have a meaningful political impact is another matter, however. The Coup is a case in point. An Oakland, California-based hip hop and funk group, it has been around since 1992, first as a three-member group and now a duo, with Raymond "Boots" Riley and DJ Pam the Funkstress. The Coup's...

... (undercarriage lighting systems or tinted windows), zoning codes (no "indoor" furniture on the front porch of a house), and dress codes in public schools. For example, despite the fact that it is common knowledge that it is a part of the hip hop culture to wear baseball caps in non-standard ways, Manual High...

.... By incorporating the user ratings developed by online auction sites (themselves a form of sharing) such as eBay, sharing software extends this trust to a much wider circle. Despite occasional bad incidents, people feel reasonably safe hopping into a stranger's car, or letting strangers drive their car...

... separate strategies used by different coalitions in the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. And Belinda Robnett and Jessica Ayo Alabi present an intriguing case study of a "corporate social movement organization/" the New York-based Hip-Hop Movement Connection, and detail its unique funding...

... base. Not surprisingly, following the declaration of the state of emergency after the failed coup attempt, the government directly targeted the HOp, imprisoning many of its members including those who are members of the National Assembly and elected local officials. While the numbers fluctuate...

... expect it to be a fluffy, hopping, floppy eared creature with big front teeth, and a twitchy nose. If we encounter a creature with all of these characteristics that is also a vampire, we would be likely to call it a vampire bunny (before we ran away screaming), and the modifier"vampire"would serve...

... of 1972 (organized by Memphis's Stax Records and the African American community of Watts in Los Angeles); and it preceded Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns of the 1980s and the rise of hip hop. As soon as the film shifts to Zaire we see a state-sponsored sign that reads, "Black Power operates here...

... and rap in a hip-hop group. Like too many American black men, he was found in court to be guilty of petty theft, drug offenses, and then armed robbery for which he served five years in prison. Granted parole in 2013, he was active at a Christian church working in its drug rehab, job placement, and youth...

..., rhythm and blues, hip-hop, and neosoul artists of the past few decades who give voice to stark social truths with an honesty that resists nihilism.61 Of even more interest than the survival of blues elements in new musical styles, however, is the vibrancy of the blues sensibility beyond the art form...

... representations in hip-hop has afforded blacks more political power in the "post-film" era. Isabel Pinedo claims the revival of the post apocalyptic television series Jericho at the demand of viewers demonstrates the engagement of the "millennial generation." Carl Bergetz questions the role of satire in an era...

... representations in hip-hop has afforded blacks more political power in the "post-film" era. Isabel Pinedo claims the revival of the post apocalyptic television series Jericho at the demand of viewers demonstrates the engagement of the "millennial generation." Carl Bergetz questions the role of satire in an era...