Pimps up, ho's down : hip hop's hold on young Black women / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

Young women--United States--Social conditions.

Young women.

Hip-hop--Social aspects--United States.

Hip-hop.

Sex role--Political aspects--United States.

Sex role.

Sexism--United States.

Sexism.

Psychology.

Sex role--Political aspects.

Social aspects.

Social conditions.

United States.

African American women--Psychology.

Young women--United States--Psychology.

African American women--Interviews.

Young women--United States--Interviews.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Genre:

Interviews.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 187 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Prologue Sex, Power, and Punanny

Introduction Pimpin' Ain't Easy, But Somebody's Got to Do It

"I See the Same Ho": Video Vixens, Beauty Culture, and Diasporic Sex Tourism

Too Hot to be Bothered: Black Women and Sexual Abuse

"I'm a Hustla, Baby": Groupie Love and the Hip Hop Star

Strip Tails: Booty Clappin', P-poppin', Shake Dancing

Coda, or a Few Last Words on Hip Hop and Feminism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-166) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

9780814740149

0814740146

OCLC:

77270707