Exploiting Hip Hop and Using Racial Stereotypes to Entertain America
ISBN: 9781604978001
Within the rapidly growing literature on hip hop and gangster rap, Gangster Rap and Its Social Cost stands out from the rest because it provides a number of unique contributions, including how it asserts that gangster rap has empowered white racists and how it provides a serious distinction between gangster rap and hip hop. Given how influential rap music and its gangster rap variant are today in American life, this is an essential book for all libraries.
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Searching for the "Real" Slim Shady
ISBN: 9781604976519
Little work has been done on trying to locate the emergence of hip hop and hip hop culture within the context of capitalist development in the United States. This book shows how racial, gender, and ethnic stereotypes are reformulated through different media. The book critically analyzes two prominent archetypal images of the gangsta male and the wanksta feminist who can be either male or female.
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Health Politics in Harlem, New York, from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression
ISBN: 9781604976243
This book provides us with a more comprehensive understanding of the connections among black morbidity, mortality, health-care delivery, and black political engagement in Harlem, New York, and aims to expand the historical understanding of race and politics, as well as the lived experiences of black people in New York City in the early twentieth century. A valuable addition to all collections in African American studies and history.
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ISBN: 9781604975772
This book is one of the first published on interracial marriages which focuses specifically on marriages between African American women and Caucasian American men in contemporary America.
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