| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
From "fuck tha police" to defund the police : a polemic, with elements of pragmatism and accommodation, hopefully not fatal, as black people hope about encounters with the police / Paul Butler -- Hip hop and traffic stops / Henry L. Chambers, Jr. -- "Black cop" : it's a blue thing (or is it?) / Kami Chavis -- "Illegal search" : race, personhood, and policing / Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. -- "Cops shot the kid" : police brutality, mass incarceration, and the reasonableness doctrine in criminal law / Kristin Henning -- Trauma / André Douglas Pond Cummings -- Black steel in the hour of chaos / Gregory S. Parks -- Roxanne Shanté's "independent woman" : making space for women in hip hop / Lolita Buckner Innis -- From the 1930s to the 2020s : what Ice Cube's song "Endangered Species" meant for four generations of black males / Robert Pervine, Kevin Brown, Charles Westerhaus, and Kynton Grays -- The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house : hip hop, young M.A., and gender norms / Zoe Smith-Holladay and Catherine Smith -- "Black rage" and the architecture of racial oppression / Deborah Archer -- Abolition as reparations : "this is America" and the anatomy of a modern protest anthem / Brie McLemore & Margaret Eby -- The message : resisting cultures of poverty in urban America / Etienne C. Toussaint -- "Just to get by" : poverty, racism, and smoking through the lens of Talib Kweli and Nina Simone's music / Ruqaiijah Yearby |
| Summary |
"Paul Butler considers NWA's 1988 song, "Fuck tha Police," as an invitation to think about putting the police on trial for crimes against African Americans. It examines the resonance of "Fuck tha Police" over time, up to and including the George Floyd inspired protests. It will also use the song to analyze how civilians should feel about cops in a democracy. Are they a positive good, as many white people might suggest, a necessary evil, as some people of color might suggest, or an unnecessary evil, as suggested by the "defund the police" movement? Butler also will explore the meaning of the trial metaphor in the song - what would it mean for African Americans to put the police on trial? What would be the crime and the appropriate punishment?"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2022) |
| Subject |
Rap (Music) -- Political aspects -- United States
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African Americans -- Political activity
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Rap (Music) -- Political aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parks, Gregory, 1974- editor.
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Cooper, Frank Rudy, editor.
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| LC no. |
2021041839 |
| ISBN |
9781009019804 |
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1009019805 |
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