Author: Jeff Chang
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1250114799
Size: 29.79 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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"THE SMARTEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" (THE WASHINGTON POST) In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon’ Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to resurgent nativism. Chang explores the rise and fall of the idea of “diversity,” the roots of student protest, changing ideas about Asian Americanness, and the impact of a century of racial separation in housing. He argues that resegregation is the unexamined condition of our time, the undoing of which is key to moving the nation forward to racial justice and cultural equity.

Author: Lukas Schneider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783668863262
Size: 46.95 MB
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Languages : de
Pages : 28
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Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 14, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Facharbeit befasst sich mit der Wechselwirkung zwischen dem kommerziell gewandelten Hip-Hop und der im Jahre 2013 formierten Protestbewegung gegen Rassismus, Diskriminierung und Polizeigewalt in den USA. Um diese Wechselwirkung ersichtlich zu machen, wird die Schilderung der Thematiken "Hip-Hop" und "#BlackLivesMatter" erst isoliert geschehen, bevor dann die Beziehung dieser beiden Faktoren erläutert wird. In Bezug auf die Musikrichtung Hip-Hop wird auf dessen Ursprung, der kommerziell bestimmten Wandlung und Kritik an dieser eingegangen. Bei der Auseinandersetzung mit der Protestbewegung werden Intention, Verlauf und die Bedeutsamkeit eines neuen Protestwerkzeugs dargestellt. Bei der finalen Herausarbeitung der Wechselwirkung zwischen dem Hip- Hop und #BlackLivesMatter wird anhand einer Analyse eines Werks aus dem Album "To Pimp A Butterfly" des US-Rappers Kendrick Lamar die Auswirkung des Protests auf die Musik illustriert. Hierbei wird auch die Bedeutung dieser Musik für die Protestbewegung und deren Anhänger näher erläutert. Konkludierend wird dann die Gewichtung der jeweiligen Einwirkungen bewertet und eine Hypothese bezüglich des weiteren Verlaufs von Hip-Hop aufgestellt.

Author: Molly Catherine Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 32.84 MB
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Category : African American philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Rap is an important rhetorical expression in that it privileges voices that have been otherwise marginalized. Certainly, a rap album is not a traditional artifact, but it is nonetheless rhetorical and worth studying. In fact, rap scholarship is important because rap as an art form is so easily dismissed by white establishment (Howard, 1999). Following this argument, this paper uses ideological criticism to explore the rhetorical function of Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 rap album To Pimp a Butterfly. Ideological criticism can be seen “as a means of critiquing Western culture itself” (Cyphert, 2001, p. 380). According to Rose (1994), “Rap music is a black [sic] cultural expression that prioritizes black [sic] voices from the margins of urban America” (p. 2). To Pimp a Butterfly is not merely critically and commercially successful, debuting at the number one spot on the Billboard Albums chart (Yenigun, 2015); it is also a rhetorical tool for education, empowerment, and empathy. More than just a rapper, Lamar is elevating the discourse within and outside of the Black community and deserves the scholarly attention he is lacking.1 Lamar has used rap to empower and educate his listeners about the Black American experience. The criticism will show that To Pimp a Butterfly serves as an extension of Kendrick Lamar’s ideology to empower and educate both within and outside of the Black community.

Author: Peter J. Spann
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728312302
Size: 32.67 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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This book is the first from the prophetic and social conscience mind of Peter Spann. His passion for Christianity and social justice takes the reader on a journey to better understanding our current climate of division and white nationalism that has encompassed both the United States and world. This book, with its infusion of biblical truth, hip-hop and social criticism, is an easy read for believers who are looking to counter the narrative that God only embraces neo-conservative views that only center around abortion, gay marriage, and land owner rights. This book is a call to action to believers in a God of social justice and a reminder that though it looks like society is temporarily taking a moral downturn, in the end, we will be alright because God promised we will.

Author: Aneka Brunßen
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668388393
Size: 26.25 MB
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Bremen, course: Concepts of Race and Racism, language: English, abstract: When we look at the history of African-American protest, two of the most prevalent issues are racial profiling and institutional brutality. And when the topics of racial profiling and institutional abuse of power, namely police brutality, are discussed, two facts become abundantly clear: (1) The two are closely related. The tendency of police in the United States to show a bias towards specific groups and the even more disturbing tendency of police officers to use unnecessary physical force against those specific groups unfortunately tend to go hand in hand. (2) The issues are not as recent as some would think, with the major evidence of this being the ubiquity of said matters in popular African-American media culture throughout history. However, it is important to acknowledge one fact: Movements and reactions to fight racial profiling and police brutality against African-Americans have become increasingly strong with activist groups having managed to use popular media to their advantage to spread a message of awareness and resistance. The fact that almost all modern liberal news providers have sections for the coverage of issues related solely to African-Americans proves that there has been a surge in media interest in the matter as well as the movements which are created as a counterculture to the popular zeitgeist of apathy and obedience to a system which still promotes institutional racism and shows a terrifying tendency to systematically disregard the lives of African-Americans. Music has always played a major role in the fight against racial bias, especially covering issues of racial profiling and police brutality. From Jazz to Rap music, African-American musicians have, for many years, chosen to use music as a way to challenge political and institutional systems and have been successful in spread their message of discontentment and anger. The discontentment is directed not only at a system which expects obedience from groups it chooses to disregard and systemically prejudge, but also at one which discourages support for their cause. Apart from entertaining people, music is often used as a tool to help people either see the misrepresentation of the African-American community and to encourage changes or to help people who are at odds with their own identity, see that they are, in fact, being misrepresented and prejudged and how to go about finding healthy ways of dealing with those feelings and fighting the issue.

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781663620217
Size: 57.70 MB
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Michael W. Waters
Publisher: Chalice Press
ISBN: 0827235410
Size: 21.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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What happens when a people can take no more injustice rained down upon their sons and daughters? When each new travesty echoes the cries of ancestors killed for the color of their skin? How do a people rediscover hope? And how do they use that new-found hope as momentum and strength for change? In his powerful new book Stakes Is High, pastor, activist, and community leader Michael W. Waters blends hip-hop lyricism and social justice leadership, creating an urgent voice demanding that America listen to the suffering if it hopes to redeem its soul. Weaving stories from centuries of persecution against the backdrop of today's urban prophets on the radio and in the streets, Waters speaks on behalf of an awakened generation raging against racism - yet fueled by the promise of a just future. Through the pain and hard but holy work, you will hear the call to join the faithful struggle for racial justice.

Author: B. Robert Wilson
Publisher: TouchPoint Press via PublishDrive
ISBN:
Size: 16.26 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A young man is born into an existential fog. Nothing for him is ever black or white; nothing for him is ever determined. His name is Lyle, a slave in western Virginia, and his story speaks of the indeterminacy of family and identity in a world where slavery and violence wrench and pull at bonds of blood and affection. From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Confederate infantry, to the Union ranks on the shores of the Ohio River, Lyle navigates his way through shifting loyalties and precarious relationships, discovering who he is, as a slave, as a son, as black, as white, as shackled, as free. Lyle is a divided spirit in a divided nation, steadily uncovering, steadily determining, steadily creating that half beneath.

Author: Kristen J. Mills
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781339251738
Size: 11.59 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Author: Marcus J. Moore
Publisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1982107588
Size: 52.29 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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This first cultural biography of rap superstar and “master of storytelling” (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and his profound impact on a racially fraught America—perfect for fans of Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s Empire State of Mind. Kendrick Lamar is at the top of his game. The thirteen-time Grammy Award­–winning rapper is just in his early thirties, but he’s already won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, produced and curated the soundtrack of the megahit film Black Panther, and has been named one of Time’s 100 Influential People. But what’s even more striking about the Compton-born lyricist and performer is how he’s established himself as a formidable adversary of oppression and force for change. Through his confessional poetics, his politically charged anthems, and his radical performances, Lamar has become a beacon of light for countless people. Written by veteran journalist and music critic Marcus J. Moore, this is the first biography of Kendrick Lamar. It’s the definitive account of his coming-of-age as an artist, his resurrection of two languishing genres (bebop and jazz), his profound impact on a racially fraught America, and his emergence as the bona fide King of Rap. The Butterfly Effect is the extraordinary, triumphant story of a modern lyrical prophet and an American icon who has given hope to those buckling under the weight of systemic oppression, reminding everyone that through it all—“we gon’ be alright.”