Soul thieves : the appropriation and misrepresentation of African American popular culture

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    • Brown, Tamara Lizette
    • Kopano, Baruti N.

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Soul thieves : the appropriation and misrepresentation of African American popular culture

edited by Tamara Lizette Brown and Baruti N. Kopano

(Contemporary Black history / Manning Marable and Peniel Joseph, series editors)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Tamara Brown PART I: ENTERTAINMENT AND FASHION 1. 'So You Think You Can Dance'
  • Tamara Brown 2. 'Foraging Fashion'
  • Abena Lewis-Mhoon 3. 'In the Eye of the Beholder: Definitions of Beauty in Popular Black Magazines'
  • Kimberly Brown PART II: BLACK POWER STUDIES 4. 'Neutering the Black Power Movement: The Hijacking of Protest Symbolism'
  • James B. Stewart 5. 'Silent Protest: The Appropriation of Black Athletic Power'
  • Jamal Ratchford 6. Black Comic Book Characters
  • David T. Terry PART III: MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY 7. Soul Thieves: White America and the Appropriation of Hip Hop and Black Culture
  • Baruti Kopano 8. I'm Hip: An Exploration of Rap Music's Creative Guise
  • Kawachi Clemmons 9. 'Cash Rules Everything Around Me! Appropriation, Commodification and the Politics of Hip Hop and Contemporary Protest Music'
  • Diarra Osei Robinson 10. 'The Appropriation of Blackness in Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show'
  • Carlos D. Morrison and Ronald L. Jackson, Jr.

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