A guest in the house of hip-hop : how rap music taught a kid from Kentucky what a white ally should be / Mickey Hess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, Mickey, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and race--United States.

Music and race.

Rap (Music)--History and criticism.

Rap (Music).

Hess, Mickey, 1975-.

Hess, Mickey.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 239 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Ig Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

"Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word "darkies." Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged him to avoid or even mock such self-examination. With America's history of cultural appropriation, we've come to mistrust white people who participate deeply in black culture, but backing away from black culture is too easy a solution. As a white professor with a longstanding commitment to teaching hip-hop music and culture, Hess argues that white people have a responsibility to educate themselves by listening to black voices and then teach other whites to face the ways they benefit from racial injustices."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: What should a white ally do?

Don't push it too far

Why white kids should listen to hip-hop

"It's about class, not race" (No it's not)

Hip-hop comes to campus

Political correctness and white identity

Racial essentialism

Professors and rappers

"Where we are is who we are"

Sit down

Censorship, grandstanding, and shutting your mouth

Who will tell hip-hop's story?

Revisionist history

Education is the apology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781632460776

1632460777

OCLC:

1030900992

Publisher Number:

99979069379