Classes » Fall 2007

"The Hip Hop Lectures" Wednesdays @ 5:30 PM Hartley Conference Center [Mitchell Earth Science Bldg] 397 Panama Mall

The Hiphop Archive and African American and African Studies (AAAS) Collaborate to Offer the Campus an Extraordinary Lecture Series!

The Hiphop Archive is collaborating with African American and African Studies to offer the campus an extraordinary lecture series. Hiphop's incursion into higher education took place within the same tradition as Black Studies, Chicano Studies, Asian American Studies, Women Studies, etc. In the 1960s-1970s, students used non-violent protest as well as arguments of standards and inclusion to achieve representation of all minorities' significance and contribution to the academic curriculum. Hiphop's appearance in academia began in the 1990s, around the time of Project Blowed's beginnings. College students, many of whom were beneficiaries of affirmative action and desegregation efforts, challenged academic and scholarly representations of the lives of lower income youth of color. They argued that urban youth could be best represented and understood by analyzing hiphop culture since they created it for themselves. Though the students were seldom from the communities described by hiphop artists, they experienced and witnessed the same racism described in hiphop lyrics and had extended family members who remained in low-income neighborhoods. These students were not content to be complacent as a result of their inclusion in elite institutions. Moreover, as they listened and participated in hiphop culture, they recognized the emergence of theories, ideas and critiques that reinvigorated intellectual debates and challenged societies and nations to address issues of justice, freedom and equality. Students protested the established way of studying youth by bum-rushing their campuses and introducing hiphop radiobroadcasts and offering hiphop classes on their own while lobbying faculty to teach as well. These scholars in this series represent cutting edge scholarship on Hiphop.

10-3
Dionne Bennett
Loyola Marymount University
How Hip Hop Moves Us: Rhyme-Rhythm Rhetoric and the Dialectics of Desire, Defiance & Despair

10-10
Carla Stokes
Helping Our Teen Girls In Real Life Situations, Inc. (HOTGIRLS).
From Hip Hop to MySpace:
Black Girls' Sexual Scripts, Self-Definition & Media Production
* location to be announced

10-17
Andreana Clay
San Francisco State University
Queering Hip-Hop: A Black Feminist Perspective

10-24
Nicole Hodges Persley
The University of Southern California
Nikki S Lee and the 'Hip-Hop Project'

10-31
Dawn-Elissa Fischer
San Francisco State University
Kobushi Ageroo! ((=Pump Ya Fist!)): Blackness, 'Race' & Politics in Japanese Hiphop

11-7
R. Scott Heath
Georgetown University
Hip_Hop Redux: A User-friendly Plugin

11-14
H. Samy Alim
University of California at Los Angeles
Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Nation Language in Global Contexts

11-28
S. Craig Watkins
University of Texas at Austin
Hip-Hop Style Games In Interactive Spaces

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