Fight the power : law and policy through hip hop songs / edited by Gregory S. Parks, Frank Rudy Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parks, Gregory, 1974- editor.

Cooper, Frank Rudy, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rap (Music)--Political aspects--United States.

Rap (Music).

African Americans--Political activity.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Political participation.

Rap (Music)--Political aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

From "fuck tha police" to defund the police : a polemic, with elements of pragmatism and accommodation, hopefully not fatal, as black people hope about encounters with the police / Paul Butler

Hip hop and traffic stops / Henry L. Chambers, Jr.

"Black cop" : it's a blue thing (or is it?) / Kami Chavis

"Illegal search" : race, personhood, and policing / Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.

"Cops shot the kid" : police brutality, mass incarceration, and the reasonableness doctrine in criminal law / Kristin Henning

Trauma / André Douglas Pond Cummings

Black steel in the hour of chaos / Gregory S. Parks

Roxanne Shanté's "independent woman" : making space for women in hip hop / Lolita Buckner Innis

From the 1930s to the 2020s : what Ice Cube's song "Endangered Species" meant for four generations of black males / Robert Pervine, Kevin Brown, Charles Westerhaus, and Kynton Grays

The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house : hip hop, young M.A., and gender norms / Zoe Smith-Holladay and Catherine Smith

"Black rage" and the architecture of racial oppression / Deborah Archer

Abolition as reparations : "this is America" and the anatomy of a modern protest anthem / Brie McLemore & Margaret Eby

The message : resisting cultures of poverty in urban America / Etienne C. Toussaint

"Just to get by" : poverty, racism, and smoking through the lens of Talib Kweli and Nina Simone's music / Ruqaiijah Yearby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Fight the power

ISBN:

9781009019804

1009019805

Publisher Number:

99989794275

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.