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Hip-Hop As Philosophical Text and Testimony
Can I Get a Witness?
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2020
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Hip-hop as survivor testimony? Rhymes as critical text? Drawing on her own experiences as a lifelong hip-hop head and philosophy professor, Lissa Skitolsky reveals the existential power of hip-hop to affect our sensibility and understanding of race and anti-black racism. Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony: Can I Get a Witness? examines how the exclusion of hip-hop from academic discourse around knowledge, racism, white supremacy, genocide, white nationalism, and trauma reflects the very neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes. At this critical moment in history, in the midst of a long overdue global reckoning with systemic anti-black racism, Skitolsky shows how it is more important than ever for white people to realize that our failure to see this system—and take hip-hop seriously—has been essential to its reproduction. In this book, she illustrates the unique power of underground hip-hop to interrupt our neoliberal and post-racial sensibility of current events.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-6670-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-6671-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
190
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
On Hip-Hop and the Erotic No access
On Hip-Hop and Trauma No access
On Hip-Hop and White Sensibility No access
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Methodology No access
Notes No access
Chapter 1 Know What I’m Sayin? No access Pages 31 - 52
Chapter 2 Can I Get a Witness? No access Pages 53 - 76
Chapter 3 Claimin’ I’m a Criminal No access Pages 77 - 112
Chapter 4 But You Don’t Hear Me Tho No access Pages 113 - 134
