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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.
- 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.
- African American women--Psychology.
- Young women--United States--Psychology.
- African American women--Interviews.
- Young women--United States--Interviews.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth Award. Pimps Up, Ho's Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, interrogates the complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying. Beyond their portrayal in rap lyrics, the di
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 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; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814741221
- 0814741223
- 9780814786505
- 0814786502
- 9781435600348
- 1435600347
- OCLC:
- 779828349
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