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Hip Hop Urbanist Reconstructions: Strategies & Tactics For Spatial Reparations, Isaac Howland
Hip Hop Urbanist Reconstructions: Strategies & Tactics For Spatial Reparations, Isaac Howland
Architecture Senior Theses
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Holding Allies Accountable, Gisselle Flores
Holding Allies Accountable, Gisselle Flores
Student Publications
Artists, including Rihanna, Cardi B, and Jay-Z, have turned down the NFL’s offer to perform in the halftime show out of solidarity with Colin Kaepernick , but it was recently announced that Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will be performing in 2020. This has sparked controversy because some are celebrating that there are two Latinas headlining the Super Bowl halftime show for the first time while others do not view this event as a cause for celebration because they believe that J. Lo and Shakira should have boycotted like other artists have. Jennifer Lopez and Shakira have given no prior indications …
Break Beats In The Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’S Early Years (Book Review), Matthew Oware
Break Beats In The Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’S Early Years (Book Review), Matthew Oware
Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications
Review of the book, Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’s Early Years, by Joseph C. Ewoodzie, University of North Carolina Press, 2017, https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469632759/break-beats-in-the-bronx/.
Sonic Jihad — Muslim Hip Hop In The Age Of Mass Incarceration, Spearit
Sonic Jihad — Muslim Hip Hop In The Age Of Mass Incarceration, Spearit
Articles
This essay examines hip hop music as a form of legal criticism. It focuses on the music as critical resistance and “new terrain” for understanding the law, and more specifically, focuses on what prisons mean to Muslim hip hop artists. Losing friends, family, and loved ones to the proverbial belly of the beast has inspired criticism of criminal justice from the earliest days of hip hop culture. In the music, prisons are known by a host of names like “pen,” “bing,” and “clink,” terms that are invoked throughout the lyrics. The most extreme expressions offer violent fantasies of revolution and …