Hip-hop Wars Rose Tricia
Hip-hop Wars Rose Tricia How hip hop shapes our conversations about race--and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the…
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Hip-hop Wars Rose Tricia
How hip hop shapes our conversations about race--and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American experience. For years, the most commercially successful hip hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and hos. As scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip hop, in fact, has become one of the primary ways we talk about race in the United States.But hip hop is in crisis.
Or does it? This both represents and feeds a problem in black American culture. In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture?
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