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  • Nuthin' but a "G" Thang

    The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

    by Eithne Quinn ...
    Series series Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives
    In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to—and making money for—a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity and profits. Yet the highly charged lyrics, public battles, and hard, fast lifestyles that characterize the genre have incited ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Piece of the Action

    Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood

    by Eithne Quinn ...
    Hollywood is often thought of—and certainly by Hollywood itself—as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black self-assertion and white backlash, many of the most heated struggles in film were fought over employment. In A Piece of the Action, Eithne Quinn ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Piece of the Action

    Race and Labor in Post–Civil Rights Hollywood

    by Eithne Quinn ...
    Hollywood is often thought of—and certainly by Hollywood itself—as a progressive haven. However, in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the film industry grew deeply conservative when it came to conflicts over racial justice. Amid black self-assertion and white backlash, many of the most heated struggles in film were fought over employment. In A Piece of the Action, Eithne Quinn ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Hip Hop Wars

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

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    How hip hop shapes our conversations about race -- and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American experience. As scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip hop, in fact, has become one of the primary ways we talk about ... Read more

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  • Know What I Mean?

    Reflections on Hip-Hop

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    Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, ... Read more

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  • Hot Stuff

    Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

    by Alice Echols ...
    Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating look at the culture and politics that gave rise to the music.In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, “Do you wanna dance?” became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols reveals the ways in which disco, assumed to be shallow and disposable, ... Read more

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  • Is Bill Cosby Right?

    Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

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    Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in black America more starkly than Bill Cosby's now-infamous assault on the black poor when he received an NAACP award in the spring of 2004. The comedian-cum-social critic lamented the lack of parenting, poor academic performance, sexual promiscuity, and criminal behavior among what he called the "knuckleheads" of the African-American community. ... Read more

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  • Desiring Canada

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    by Patricia Cormack, James Cosgrave ...
    What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country – and beyond – on television and in other forms of media. But whose definition of ‘Canadian’ do they represent? What does it mean to be Canadian? Do we create our own impressions of Canadian identity, or are they created for us? In Desiring Canada, ... Read more

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  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

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  • Winning the Race

    Beyond the Crisis in Black America

    by John McWhorter ...
    In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only cure for the crisis in the African-American community.Winning the Race examines the roots of the serious problems facing black Americans today-poverty, drugs, and high incarceration rates-and contends ... Read more

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