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A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory And The Hip Hop Nation, André Douglas Pond Cummings
A Furious Kinship: Critical Race Theory And The Hip Hop Nation, André Douglas Pond Cummings
andré douglas pond cummings
Two explosive movements were born in the United States in the 1970s. While the founding of both movements was humble and lightly noticed, both grew to become global phenomena that have profoundly changed the world. Founded by prescient agitators, these two movements were borne of disaffect, disappointment, and near desperation—a desperate need to give voice to oppressed and dispossessed peoples. America in the 1970s bore witness to the founding of two furious movements: Critical Race Theory and Hip Hop. Critical Race Theory was founded as a response to what had been deemed a sputtering civil rights agenda in the U.S. …