For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780472132867)

For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social injustices, and then zoom in on artists whose work has accomplished these ends. The volume explores topics including education and pedagogy; the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration; electoral politics; gender and sexuality; and the global struggle for social justice. Ultimately, the book argues that Hip-Hop is much more than a musical genre or cultural form: Hip-Hop is a resistance mechanism.

Author: Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey, Adolphus Belk
ISBN-10: 0472132865
ISBN-13: 9780472132867
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2022
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.10d