Soul Thieves The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African Amer
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
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m and the Long Black Freedom Struggle By Robert W. Widell, Jr. Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture Edited by Tamara Lizette Brown and Baruti N. Kopano Black Power Principals By Matthew Whitaker (forthcoming) The Congress of African People: History, Memory, and an Ideological Journey By Michael Simanga (forthcoming)
Soul Thieves The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture Edited by Tamara Lizette Brown and Baruti N. Kopano
soul thieves
Copyright © Tamara Lizette Brown and Baruti N. Kopano, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-0-230-108912 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-0-230-10897-4 DOI 10.1057/9781137071392
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Contents
Preface Acknowledgments 1 Soul Thieves: White America and the Appropriation of Hip Hop and Black Culture Baruti N. Kopano 2 The Appropriation of Blackness in Ego Trip’s The (White) Rapper Show Carlos D. Morrison and Ronald L. Jackson, II 3 Cash Rules Everything around Me: Appropriation, Commodification, and the Politics of Contemporary Protest Music and Hip Hop Diarra Osei Robertson
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4 I’m Hip: An Exploration of Rap Music’s Creative Guise Kawachi Clemmons
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5 Foraging Fashion: African American Influences on Cultural Aesthetics Abena Lewis-Mhoon
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6 In the Eye of the Beholder: Definitions of Beauty in Popular Black Magazines Kimberly Brown
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7 Neutering the Black Power Movement: The Hijacking of Protest Symbolism James B. Stewart
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8 A Silent Protest: The 1968 Olympiad and the Appropriation of Black Athletic Power Jamal Ratchford
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9 Imagining a Strange New World: Racial Integration and Social Justice Advocacy in Marvel Comics, 1966–1980 David Taft Terry
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10 So You Think You Can Dance: Black Dance and American Popular Culture Tamara Lizette Brown
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List of Contributors
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Index
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Preface
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ulture is the beliefs, values, norms, traditions, and artifacts shared among the inhabitants of a common society. Harold Cruse in The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual validates cul
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