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Articles 91 - 120 of 190
Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Racial Prioritization In Black-White Relationships, Nia Tariq
Racial Prioritization In Black-White Relationships, Nia Tariq
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
The utilization of race as a proxy for evaluating different characteristics of others contains risk because it results in stereotyping and potential alienation of individuals from negatively judged groups. This concept motivated me to uncover the extent to which race affects intimate relationships amongst the historically opposed groups of blacks and whites in the United States. I am studying the historic racially-driven marginalization of blacks and the resulting relationship to recent dating and marriage patterns between black-white interracial pairs. I want to find out why the socioeconomic advantage held by whites is transmutated into dating culture, in order to understand …
Abjection And Vision, Brianna Perry
Abjection And Vision, Brianna Perry
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
I am currently researching medieval Christian mysticism and Black Hoodoo. Both traditions are founded upon a more involved relationship with the body and spirit. The herbalism, magic and superstition involved in the Black Hoodoo tradition have served as means of resistance among Black Americans. In light of the Tuskegee Airman incident, Black Americans’ doubt of the white medical establishment has increased. In a world dominated by reason and logic, magic makes less and less sense. The role of mystics provided new opportunities and fulfillment for medieval women, who found their voices through articulating and illustrating their visions. Visions primarily served …
Kendrick Lamar’S Collapsing Of Hip Hop Realness And Christian Identity, Matthew Linder
Kendrick Lamar’S Collapsing Of Hip Hop Realness And Christian Identity, Matthew Linder
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
In Danielle S. Macon’s "To Pimp a Caterpillar: Hip Hop as Vehicle to Spiritual Liberation through the Decolonization of European Ideology" about Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, she identifies Kendrick’s three-step process of liberation for African-Americans through spirituality: exhibition, revelation, and community orientation. I seek to place her analysis of Kendrick’s music within the context of Daniel White Hodge’s exploration of the neo-sacred secular in Hip Hop, a theological concept containing three elements: a belief that God is in all things, viewing life as having good and bad elements, and a rejection of religionism as the only way to …
Hip Hop Hermeneutics: How The Culture Influences Preachers, Dwight A. Radcliff Jr.
Hip Hop Hermeneutics: How The Culture Influences Preachers, Dwight A. Radcliff Jr.
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
"Hip Hop Hermeneutics" essay lays out findings of current research into how Hip Hop culture has been formational for African American preachers, and how that culture informs their preaching. There is a generation of preachers leading congregations today that have grown up with Hip Hop. Hip Hop culture has left an indelible mark upon them; just as the church has. How does the cultural influence of Hip Hop affect their preaching? Hip Hop hermeneutics is the response put forth by this article. This article traces the practice and theology of early African American preachers, the work of James Cone in …
From Yeezus To Pablo: An Existential Theology Between God, Blackness, And Being, Shea Watts
From Yeezus To Pablo: An Existential Theology Between God, Blackness, And Being, Shea Watts
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Kanye West has transformed and transfigured from a young rapper representing the Southside of Chicago, to an icon, a rap genius, a god. His persona has continually evolved from his arrival on the Hip Hop scene, leading to his emergence as, "Yeezus." This essay argues for an investigation of Kanye’s theological claims through the lens of his own body, particularly the balance between how he conveys what it is like to be a black man in an American culture plagued by racism and the potential of the black body to assert its incarnate godlikeness in his music. In addition, this …
The Messianic Zeal: A Case Of Radical Aesthetics In Black Cultural Production, Daniel L. Williams
The Messianic Zeal: A Case Of Radical Aesthetics In Black Cultural Production, Daniel L. Williams
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
This essay examines artwork by popular artists D’Angelo, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and 2pac Shakur and compares their articulations to a larger discourse of messianic symbolism in (black) American popular culture. In this paper, messianic symbolism is a discursive chain of symbols that invoke the Black experience. Artists extend the legacy of earlier representations of black messianism by similarly representing themselves as Jews, saviors or folk heroes with a specific mission to save a world burdened by racial strife and oppression. These qualities manifest in lyrics, album covers, and other late 20th century rhetoric.
Introduction: "Ain’T It Evil To Live Backwards?": A Hip Hop Perspective Of Religion, Travis T. Harris, Cassandra D. Chaney
Introduction: "Ain’T It Evil To Live Backwards?": A Hip Hop Perspective Of Religion, Travis T. Harris, Cassandra D. Chaney
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Historically, Black religion has been the cornerstone of the African experience in America. Due to the "peculiar institution” of slavery" and the ways this institutional residue still affect the lives of slave descendants, Hip Hop provides a forum to simultaneously acknowledge similarities and highlight differences. What scholars of religion and Hip Hop studies have revealed are the ways in which the effectiveness and our very understanding of “religion” changes when we bring Hip Hop in to the mix.
Foreword, Cassandra D. Chaney
Cover, Editors And Editorial Board, Sponsors
Cover, Editors And Editorial Board, Sponsors
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Book Review – In Search Of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, And Religion By Alejandro Nava, Waqas Mirza
Book Review – In Search Of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, And Religion By Alejandro Nava, Waqas Mirza
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Book review of In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion, by Alejandro Nava (2017).
Black Lives Examined: Black Nonfiction And The Praxis Of Survival In The Post-Civil Rights Era, Ariel D. Lawrence
Black Lives Examined: Black Nonfiction And The Praxis Of Survival In The Post-Civil Rights Era, Ariel D. Lawrence
Theses and Dissertations
The subject of my thesis project is black nonfiction, namely the essay, memoir, and autobiography, written by black authors about and during the Post-Civil Rights Era. The central goals of this work are to briefly investigate the role of genre analysis within the various subsets of nonfiction and also to exemplify the ways that black writers have taken key genre models and evolved them. Secondly, I aim to understand the historical, political, and cultural contributions of the Post-Civil Rights Era, which I mark as hitting its stride in 1968. It is not my desire to create a definitive historical framework …
Fictive Kinship In The Aspirations, Agency, And (Im)Possible Selves Of The Black American Art Teacher, Gloria Wilson
Fictive Kinship In The Aspirations, Agency, And (Im)Possible Selves Of The Black American Art Teacher, Gloria Wilson
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
In this paper, I explore the pairing of the concepts of fictive kinship and agency in order to explore racial identity narratives of the Black American art teacher. Expanding on the anthropological concept of fictive kinship, where bonds of connectedness between people help to shape selfhood, I consider the powerful impact that visual culture has on shaping identity narratives and the professional aspirations of Black American art teachers. I identify fictive kinship connections as salient in creating spaces which affect agency in the conceptualization and achievement of the self as an artist. I further use the concept of fictive kinship …
After Blackness, Then Blackness: Afro-Pessimism, Black Life, And Classical Hip Hop As Counter-Performance, Kevin Eubanks
After Blackness, Then Blackness: Afro-Pessimism, Black Life, And Classical Hip Hop As Counter-Performance, Kevin Eubanks
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Hip Hop Djs And The Evolution Of Technology: Cultural Exchange, Innovation, And Democratization, Roy Christopher
Hip Hop Djs And The Evolution Of Technology: Cultural Exchange, Innovation, And Democratization, Roy Christopher
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Review of Hip Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology: Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization, by André Sirois (2016).
Eminem's Character, Stan: A Bio-Psycho-Social Autopsy, Akeem Sule, Becky Inkster
Eminem's Character, Stan: A Bio-Psycho-Social Autopsy, Akeem Sule, Becky Inkster
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Making Movie Money: A 25-Year Analysis Of Rappers' Acting Roles In Hollywood Movies, Tia Tyree
Making Movie Money: A 25-Year Analysis Of Rappers' Acting Roles In Hollywood Movies, Tia Tyree
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Cover, Editors And Editorial Board, Sponsors, Table Of Contents
Cover, Editors And Editorial Board, Sponsors, Table Of Contents
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Addict Rap?: The Shift From Drug Distributor To Drug Consumer In Hip Hop, Calvinjohn Smiley
Addict Rap?: The Shift From Drug Distributor To Drug Consumer In Hip Hop, Calvinjohn Smiley
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
The Vulgar Voice On The New Black Realist Soundtrack: Sounds Of Resistance, Policing And Crime In Spike Lee's Clockers, James Millea
The Vulgar Voice On The New Black Realist Soundtrack: Sounds Of Resistance, Policing And Crime In Spike Lee's Clockers, James Millea
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
White Chicks With A Gangsta' Pitch: Gendered Whiteness In United States Rap Culture (1990-2017), Melvin L. Williams
White Chicks With A Gangsta' Pitch: Gendered Whiteness In United States Rap Culture (1990-2017), Melvin L. Williams
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
No abstract provided.
Relocations Of The 'Outraged Slave': Transatlantic Reform Conversations Through Douglass's Periodical Fiction, Nikki D. Fernandes
Relocations Of The 'Outraged Slave': Transatlantic Reform Conversations Through Douglass's Periodical Fiction, Nikki D. Fernandes
Theses and Dissertations
Through their editorial arrangements of African-American, Euro-American and European poetry, fiction and news, Frederick Douglass’s anti-slavery periodicals (The North Star and Frederick Douglass’ Paper) imagine a cosmopolitan discourse that predates the segregated realities of the antebellum United States. In spite of Southern blockades against the infiltration of Northern texts, Douglass’s material space uniquely capitalized on the limited restrictions of his reprinting culture to relocate the voice of the ‘outraged slave’ onto a global stage. From the poems of Phillis Wheatley and William Cowper to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Douglass’s own novella “The Heroic Slave,” this project considers how …
Hip Hop Videos And Black Identity In Virtual Space, Joel Rubin
Hip Hop Videos And Black Identity In Virtual Space, Joel Rubin
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
In this paper, I present an understanding of music videos as useful representations of the dynamism of blackness and black identity and in fact indicative of a post-regional turn in Hip Hop. In order to illustrate, I first examine how blackness is expressed in physical space with the advent of New York City's block parties and the Bay Area's "hyphy" movement. I then situate the importance of the music video in a contemporary understanding of visualized culture in virtual space. Applying this understanding to the performance and perception of blackness, I use the example of Canadian Hip Hop artist Drake's …
Sojourner, Karl Carter
Bigger By The Dozens: The Prevalence Of Afro-Based Tradition In Battle Rap, Shingi Mavima
Bigger By The Dozens: The Prevalence Of Afro-Based Tradition In Battle Rap, Shingi Mavima
Journal of Hip Hop Studies
This paper interrogates the linguistic grounding of battle rap in Afro-based cultural practices, and the transformative power the understated art form possesses within the African American community. An integral part of hip-hop from the beginning, 'battling' has grown into a distinct subculture in recent years. Because of its oft-unmitigated rawness, it is often viewed as a lesser artistic form that embodies the worst of the violence, misogyny and other societal ills that hip-hop is accused of promoting. This paper argues that battle rap is not a corruption of Black culture: it is the modern incarnation of long-held oral, competitive, and …
Brown Girl, Karl Carter