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Whiteness

       
                   
  Whiteness - 2 Sessions - Group Presentation November 16
Within an American context, what are some of the ways that white youth respond to hip hop? How is "whiteness" embedded in the construction of hip hop? What are the particularly American wages of racial segregation in terms of popular culture, and especially hip hop?
       
                         
      Unit Assignments              
                         
      view: Jails, Hospitals, Hip Hop (2002) November 13 1-134 7pm          
                         
      listen: To The Five Boroughs Beastie Boys, 2004        
                         
      listen: The Slim Shady LP Eminem, 1999        
                         
      read: Hip Hop Matters Chapter 3 pp 83-110        
                         
      read: "Hip, and the Long Front of Color" by Andrew Ross in No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture New York, Routledge, 1989: 65-101