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Title: White Privilege in Hiphop Post by: Iniko Ujaama on February 28, 2010, 01:36:51 PM Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity (Trailer) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWF-peyRuvA&feature=player_embedded#normal) - Blacking Up: Hip-Hop's Remix of Race and Identity (Trailer)
This video documentary compares the whiteness in Hiphop with the earlier appropriation and co-optation of other African artforms like Rock and Jazz by Whites. http://www.theskybeneath.com/thesis/full-text-8.html (http://www.theskybeneath.com/thesis/full-text-8.html) - Eminem: The new White Negro(this article gets its name from a previous article by Carl Rux Hancock http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0303/tate/essay.html (http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0303/tate/essay.html) - Eminem: "The new white negro" taken from "Everything but the burden" by Greg Tate(2003) The latest big White entry into the world of Hiphop is rapper called Asher Roth. The following article looks at his approach to his whiteness within Hiphop http://socialsciencelite.blogspot.com/2009/04/asher-roth-is-anti-white-guilt.html (http://socialsciencelite.blogspot.com/2009/04/asher-roth-is-anti-white-guilt.html) |