Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-133) and index.
Contents:
Repaying my debt through context -- Hip hop, context, and black girlhood -- The new South: gone with the beat -- Starting with my limitations: positionality, power, and reflexivity -- Where are the white girls? -- Body image, relationships, desirability, and ass -- The beat of hegemony -- Black girls resisting when no one is listening.
Summary:
Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race, body, class, inequality, and privilege. The thriving atmosphere of Atlanta, Georgia serves as the background against which these youth consume Hip Hop, and the book examines how the city's socially conservative politics, urban gentrification, race relations, Southern-flavored Hip Hop music and culture, and booming adult entertainment industry rest in their periphery. Intertwined within the girls' exploration of Hip Hop and coming of age in Atlanta, the author shares her love for the culture, struggles of being a queer educator and a Black lesbian living and researching in the South, and reimagining Hip Hop pedagogy for urban learners.
Series:
Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education, 1058-1634 ; v. 399
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