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Who Benefits From Blackness? The White Compulsion For Capital, Akira Milligan
Who Benefits From Blackness? The White Compulsion For Capital, Akira Milligan
Cultural Studies Capstone Papers
This project will examine the change in representations of blackness and black character in commercially successful hip hop music through music videos directed by Hype Williams from 1995 to 2005. This research will use a womanist approach to address the significant historical influence of storytelling in the black narrative and how the emerging concepts of hypermasculinity and the degradation of the black body have seemingly become the new normal. These concepts largely contribute to the negative stereotypical perceptions of black identity that keeps black bodies marginalized because there is little diversity in the public representations of blackness while there exists …
Where The Ladies At? Examining The Visibility Of Black Women In Hip Hop An How It Reflects A Larger Understanding Of Black Womanhood, Danielle Wallace
Where The Ladies At? Examining The Visibility Of Black Women In Hip Hop An How It Reflects A Larger Understanding Of Black Womanhood, Danielle Wallace
Cultural Studies Capstone Papers
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