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Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and 'hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States . In The Hip-Hop Wars , Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist, or are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in hip-hop undermine black advancement? A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject, The Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip-hop. What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of the form, but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of culture, politics, anger, and yes, sex, than the current ubiquitous images in sound and video currently provide.
In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest
conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take
place. In their absence, commonly held perceptions of black women
as teenage mothers, welfare recipients, mammies, or exotic sexual
playthings remain unchanged. For fear that telling their stories
will fulfill society’s implicit expectations about their sexuality,
most black women have retreated into silence. Tricia Rose seeks to
break this silence and jump-start a dialogue by presenting, for the
first time, the sexual testimonies of black women who span a broad
range of ages, levels of education, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Both brilliantly conceived and sensitively executed, "Longing to
Tell" is required reading for anyone interested in issues of race
and gender.
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