Yeezus Is Jesuz: Examining The Socio-Hermeneutical Transmediated Images Of Jesus Employed By Kanye West, 2019 North Park University
Yeezus Is Jesuz: Examining The Socio-Hermeneutical Transmediated Images Of Jesus Employed By Kanye West, Daniel White Hodge
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Kanye is enigmatic in many ways. His continuous reference to deity while still embracing a person like 452 makes him worth the study and effort to explore his contribution and effect in the Hip Hop cultural continuum. This article investigates, Kanye West from a theological and spiritual standpoint to provide insights from his theological aesthetics. While the ever-growing field of Hip Hop studies begins to explore religion in Hip Hop, the present work seeks to address this and develop new theologies/theories that fit both a Hip Hop and Black theology context. While the formal discipline of theology in the United …
I’M So Self-Conscious: Kanye West’S Rhetorical Wrestling With Theodicy And Nihilism, 2019 University of Rochester
I’M So Self-Conscious: Kanye West’S Rhetorical Wrestling With Theodicy And Nihilism, Conā S. M. Marshall
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Whether Kanye’s plea to God is to intervene because “the devil’s trying to break [him] down,” or that he (Kanye) is “tryna keep [his] faith,” Kanye West’s lamentations communicate his wrestling of succumbing to sufferings within the world. Despite the twelve-year span between “Jesus Walks” and “Ultralight Beam,” Kanye West’s rhetoric in both songs attempt to make meaning of theodicy—suffering; while simultaneously combating nihilism—the lack of hope. As a professed Christian who articulates the multiplicity of God through Jesus and himself (Kanye West), affirmed on his 2013 album Yeezus track, “I am God,” West complicates religiosity and self-consciousness. He does …
I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, And The Church, 2019 Trinity Washington University
I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, And The Church, Joshua K. Wright, Adria Y. Goldman, Vanatta S. Ford
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
The goal of this project, “I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church,” is to add a new perspective to the scholarly discourse on Hip Hop and Christianity within classrooms, religious institutions, and popular culture by focusing on Kanye. We chose to focus on Kanye because he has been one of Hip Hop’s most influential artists in the past decade. Furthermore, Kanye is one of the most polarizing celebrities in America and across the globe. His music, fashion, political views, and family (which includes the Kardashians) dominate discourse on social media, blogs, television, and other forms of mass …
Poem - Untitled, 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University
Closing Thoughts, 2019 Williams College
Closing Thoughts, Vanatta S. Ford, Adria Y. Goldman
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Poem – Footnotes For Kanye, 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University
Poem – Footnotes For Kanye, Jasmine Mans
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
“How Great:” Reflections On Kanye’S Best Prodigy, Chance The Rapper, 2019 Trinity Washington University
“How Great:” Reflections On Kanye’S Best Prodigy, Chance The Rapper, Joshua K. Wright
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Meditation From Rev. Nathaniel Yates, Metropolitan Youth Pastor, 2019 Bethany Community Church
Meditation From Rev. Nathaniel Yates, Metropolitan Youth Pastor, Nathaniel Yates
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Meditation - Losing Kanye, 2019 Lehigh University
Meditation - Losing Kanye, Cynthia Estremera
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Contributors, 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University
For Colored Girls And Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Prayer And Good Music Weren’T Enough, 2019 Trinity Washington University
For Colored Girls And Boys Who Have Considered Suicide/ When Prayer And Good Music Weren’T Enough, Joshua K. Wright
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Lauren Chanel Allen, a 22-year-old Christian graduate student at Howard University, struggled with mental illness for years. Like so many blacks, Lauren expected her faith to serve an elixir for her problems, including depression. However, her prayers were not sufficient. When she was unable to find solace in the church, she sought out an alternative source: the music of Kanye West. She shared her story in a 2016 article, “How An Ultralight Beam Helped My Dark Depression,” which she published in Abernathy magazine. Lauren’s story speaks to the disconnect that many millennials have with the church. Nowhere in her article …
Meditation – We Killed Kanye: A Manifesto To The Old Kanye Fans, 2019 American Film Institute
Meditation – We Killed Kanye: A Manifesto To The Old Kanye Fans, Tari Wariebi
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Amjambo Africa! (August 2019), 2019 University of Southern Maine
Amjambo Africa! (August 2019), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
Welcome Feast........................Page 8
My Life as a Refugee ............Page 11 by Veronica Kaluta
Wedding of Irene Yao & Romeo Adji....................Page 13
Queering Black Greek-Lettered Fraternities, Masculinity And Manhood : A Queer Of Color Critique Of Institutionality In Higher Education., 2019 University of Louisville
Queering Black Greek-Lettered Fraternities, Masculinity And Manhood : A Queer Of Color Critique Of Institutionality In Higher Education., Antron Demel Mahoney
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Drawing heavily on Roderick Ferguson’s (2012) theory of institutionality, this dissertation constructs a counter-historical genealogy of racialized gender in higher education and U.S. society through the formation of black Greek-lettered fraternities. Ferguson argues that with the insurgence of minority resistance globally and domestically during the mid-twentieth century, hegemonic power took a new form. Instead of rejecting minority difference, power’s new network attempted to work through and with minority difference in an effort to absorb and restrict these radical formations within state, capital and academy frameworks—producing narrow or one-dimensional minority subjectivities. Established at the turn of the twentieth century, black Greek-lettered …
The Shape Of You: Music's Impact On Identity, 2019 Ursinus College
The Shape Of You: Music's Impact On Identity, Codi Yhap
Music Summer Fellows
Investigating the multiple functions of music, scholars from various fields have expressed that music can regulate moods and emotions while providing listeners a way to navigate their identity. Focusing primarily on the genre of rap, this research has placed the field of Music and Emotion in conversation with Hip-Hop studies. The field of Music and Emotion has thoroughly measured/examined listener thought processes, bodily response, and cultural influences when engaging with music. Despite the rise in scholarship addressing popular music and emotion, the field rarely includes popular music in its discussions unless, perhaps, the genre is jazz. Recognizing that there are …
Research On The Anglophone Protest In Cameroon, 2019 University of Dayton
Research On The Anglophone Protest In Cameroon, Julius A. Amin
Julius A. Amin
Between January 2018 and April 2019, we administered questionnaires to Cameroonians in the Anglophone and Francophone regions to understand their views and impact of the ongoing Anglophone Crisis/Protest. We have done little editing, hoping to let the words of the respondents speak for themselves. We promised respondents that their identity will not be disclosed, and we have done everything possible to ensure that the identity of the respondent is protected. We collected nearly 200 responses, all completed in various degrees of depth. We thank our research assistants and translators for working on this project.
‘Black Intifada’: Black Arts Movement, Palestinian Poetry Of Resistance And The Roots Of Black And Palestinian Solidarity, 2019 University of Massachusetts Amherst
‘Black Intifada’: Black Arts Movement, Palestinian Poetry Of Resistance And The Roots Of Black And Palestinian Solidarity, Nadia Alahmed
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary contrapuntal study of Black Arts, Black Power Movements, Palestinian Poetry of Resistance and Palestinian Nationalist movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It starts with the examination of shared historical, political cultural and aesthetic forces that propelled the emergence of these movements and how their shared ideological matrix determined the resonance of their political and artistic strategies and goals. It moves on to analyze Black discourse on the Palestine/Israeli conflict from 1948, until the 1967 War, using W.E.B. Du Bois and James Baldwin as models, showing how its key characteristics premeditated the transformation of this discourse …
Amjambo Africa! (July 2019), 2019 University of Southern Maine
Amjambo Africa! (July 2019), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
Racial Inequality.....................Page 7
Welcome Table ......................Page 9
Art in Exodus ..........................Page 9
Alliance Française.................Page 13
Re-Visioning Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man For A Class Of Urban Immigrant Youth, 2019 CUNY New York City College of Technology
Re-Visioning Ralph Ellison’S Invisible Man For A Class Of Urban Immigrant Youth, Camille Goodison
Publications and Research
In this essay, I will explore Ralph Ellison’s 1952 classic novel, Invisible Man, as a text that has contemporary and relatable themes for a modern-day classroom of mostly urban youth. This essay is also a personal journey into how Ellison’s inventive approaches to form helped create a work that lends itself to contemporary reimagining. It asks the question, can Ellison’s interest in creating a living Afro-American literary tradition rooted in the lore of the ‘peasant’ or common folk have contemporary applications? How does Ellison’s belief that everyday folk expression has value hold up for today’s readers? I try to …
Dale Knickerbocker, Editor. Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction From Around The World. U Of Illinois P, 2018., 2019 Ohio Dominican University
Dale Knickerbocker, Editor. Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction From Around The World. U Of Illinois P, 2018., Jeremy Glazier
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Dale Knickerbocker, editor. Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction From Around the World. U of Illinois P, 2018.