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[Jason Whitlock]

Issues from Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes?”: masculinity, sexism, violence and homophobia. How do black men feel about the representations of manhood in hip-hop? How do black women and men feel about the pervasive images of scantily clad and sexually objectified women in rap music and videos? What do today's rap lyrics tell us about the collective consciousness of black men and women from the hip-hop generation



Commodification of Hip-Hop- Commercializing, showing the worst stereotypes, make a commodity. 1983 thriller, 1984 rock box by run dmc showed that black music was profitable. Corporations characterize blacks how they want

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Six (6) major phenomena that has shaped the world view of the Hip-Hop Generation?
Criminal justice system, media representation, globalization, segregation, employment de-industrialization.


Major issues black feminists confronted in the 1960s
The feminist movement focused on white womens problems, like the ability to work outside the home. Civil rights movement was for men. Neither movement helped black women. “all women are white, all blacks are men” paid less, underrepresented power, physical abuse


Problems for black mayors?
Lack of money, majority white city council, black population had high expectations that were unrealistic, political beauracracy takes time.

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Three types of black nationalist
Nation of Islam: Territorial. Wanted to resurrect the spiritual, mental, social and economic conditions of blacks. Elijah Muhammed, Farrakhan, Malcolm X.

Black Panthers: Revolutionary, promote civil rights and self defense. Founded by Huey Newton.

US Organization: Change names, go back to African ways



Post traumatic slave syndrome
dr. leary created a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American Communities throughout the United state.
Looked at obstacles that our ancestors faced during slavery. Discusses the adaptive behavior behaviors they developed, positive and negative that allowed them to survive. These behaviors have been passed down through generations. This was witnessed in the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, de facto segregation, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, restrictive covenants, redlining, gentrification and other assorted measures which arose to maintain the status quo. In reaction to the ongoing oppression, black people developed an identifiable set of survival skills, some of which were self-destructive.

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2nd Great Migration: 7 million blacks moved from the south to the north, Midwest and west from 1915 through 1970. Migrated to escape racism, seek employment opportunities in industrial cities, get better education for their children and find a better life. Some historians say the migration was from 1940-1970.

Causes:
1. Jim Crow Laws
2. Boil Weevil infestation of cotton fields forced sharecroppers to find new work
3. Expansion of war industries created jobs for blacks
4. world war 1 and immigration act led to need for more black workers
5. great Mississippi flood displaced black workers

Detroit went from 6,000 blacks to 120,000.
Working class whites resented blacks because blacks hurt their ability to negotiate wages.
Mortgage discrimination and redlining inner cities

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