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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

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by M. K. Asante Jr

Los Angeles Times

  Lotus Academy, Philadelphia

  Loud Records

  Louima, Abner

  Lovelace, Richard

  Lurie, Alison

  M-

  McDaniels, Darryl “D.M.C.,”

  McDermott, Jim

  McDonald’s

  McDuffe, Arthur

  McGreevey, Jim

  McKay, Claude

  McWherter, Ned

  McWhorter, John W.

  Madden, Claire

  Malcolm X

  assassination of

  unity to fight oppression

  Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

  malnutrition and hunger

  Mandela, Nelson

  “Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American Nigger, The,”

  “Manifesto/Outro?,”

  Marable, Manning

  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

  Market Research

  Marshall, Justice Thurgood

  Martin Eden (London)

  Martinez, Elizabeth

  mass media

  crime portrayed by

  the ghetto in

  media education and awareness

  negative racial stereotypes and their effects

  Real Black vs. Reel Black

  Mauer, Mark

  Mays, David

  MC Ren

  Mead, Margaret

  media, see mass media

  Medicaid

  Melle Mel

  Menace II Society

  Mercury Records

  Merlis, Jim

  “Message, The,”

  “Message to the Grassroots,”

  Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), New York City

  Mexico

  fugitive slaves and

  Latino immigrants, see immigrants and immigration

  Miami, Florida

  Microsoft

  middle-class Blacks

  flight to the suburbs

  teenagers

  Mighty Mike C

  migration of Southern blacks to Northern industrial cities

  minstrel shows

  Mis-education of the Negro, The

  (Woodson)

  misogyny

  see also sexism

  Mr. Magic (aka Sir Juice)

  Mizell, “Jam-Master Jay,”

  “Money, Power, Respect: A Critique of the Business of Rap Music,”

  Montgomery Bus Boycott

  Montoya, Malaquias

  Morgan State University

  Asante as professor at

  Morris, Tanya

  Morrison, Toni

  Mos Def

  Motorola

  Motown

  MOVE

  movie houses, Black

  MTV

  Muhammad, Elijah

  Muhammad, Khaleel

  Murphy, Eddie

  Muslim Mosque, Inc.

  “My Adidas,”

  “My Dungeon Shook,”

  Napoleon

  Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (Stedman)

  Nas

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  National Guard

  National Hip-Hop Action Network

  Nation of Islam

  Naughty by Nature

  Nazi Germany

  “Neo-American,”

  neocolonialism

  Newark, New Jersey

  New Danger, The

  New Jack City

  New Jersey State Police

  New Orleans, Louisiana

  “New ‘Peculiar Institution’: On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto, The,”

  Newton, Huey

  New York City, New York

  subway graffiti

  New York City Police Department (NYPD)

  New York Daily News

  New York State

  Attica prison

  the Box, or Special Housing Unit (SHU) in prisons of

  prison population

  Rockefeller drug laws

  New York Times, The

  Ngugi

  Nicaragua

  “90s Minstrels, The,”

  Nixon, Richard, “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South,”

  Nommo, Nommo

  Norbit

  Nordstrom

  Northern industrial cities, migration of Southern blacks to

  “Not Going to Play,”

  Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie)

  “No Turn Backs,”

  nuclear weapons

  Nuremberg Trials

  Nurridin, Jalal Mansur (alias Lightnin’ Rod)

  N. W. A. (Niggaz with Attitude)

  Oakland Police Department

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  OC

  Ocean Hill-Brownsville conflict over school curriculum

  Okoye, Felix

  Olympic Games

  Omnibus Anti-Drug Abuse Act of

  Omnibus Crime Bill of

  Onimode, Bade, “Open Letter to African-American

  Sisters and Brothers,”

  oppression, the artivist and the fight against

  Organization of African Unity

  Ortega, Sergio

  Oschino

  OutKast

  outsourcing of jobs, overseas

  ownership of Black music

  Oyewole, Abiodun

  Packaged Facts

  Paid in Full

  Palestinians

  Panopticon

  “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag,”

  Parenti, Christian

  Paris (rapper)

  Parks, Rosa

  Parmar, Pratibha

  Partisan Review

  Passage to Peace

  path of hope

  “pattie rollers,”

  Patton, Antwan (Big Boi)

  Paul Winley Records

  pawnshops

  P. Diddy

  perception management

  Perez, Rosie

  Perry, Tyler

  personal responsibility

  Peterson, Uywanda

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  inner-city violence

  Lotus Academy

  murder rate for Blacks

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pierre Cardin

  Plain View Doctrine

  Planète Rap

  Poetic Justice

  police, relations between African-Americans and

  knowing your rights

  “pattie rollers,”

  post-hip-hop generation, challenge for

  self-defense

  “stop snitchin’,”

  police brutality

  Dead Prez interview

  rebellions against

  police officers, management training for

  “Political Economy of Black Music, The,”

  “Political Pollution,”

  popping

  post-hip-hop

  as paradigm shift

  post-hip-hop generation

  intergenerational issues and

  organizing for change

  police, challenge of changing relationship with the

  “Post-Hip-Hop Generation, The”(college course)

  “Post-Hip-Hop Generation” (panel discussion)

  poverty

  blaming poor people for

  confronting structures that maintain

  disassociation from poor Blacks

  ending of

  health and

  imprisonment and

  New Deal programs to alleviate

  statistics

  poverty gap

  Price, Leontyne

  Prince

  prison industrial complex

  the Box, or Special Housing Unit (SHU)

  clothing of

  companies profiting from

  construction of prisons

  ex-convicts, treatment of

  juveniles and

  the Panopticon

  politics and

  prison labor


  as a surrogate ghetto

  “three strikes” laws

  see also drugs

  prison inmates, Black, x-xii

  recidivism

  rights denied ex-offenders

  statistics

  Professor Grif

  Public Enemy

  Pudim, Alafia

  Queen Latifah

  race rebellions

  labeled “riots,”

  in 1960s

  in 1980s

  radio

  see also mass media

  Raising Hell

  Rap Attack

  “Rape Over, The,”

  rap music

  as alternative to disco

  criticism of lyrics

  Disco Fever club and

  early opposition of older Blacks to

  ownership of Black music

  “Rapper’s Delight,”

  “Rappin’ to the Beat,”

  Rawkus Records

  Reagan, Ronald

  Real Black vs. Reel Black

  Red Alert, DJ

  Red Emma (bookstore)

  redlining

  Reed, Gregory

  Rehnquist, Justice William

  “Reinforcing Racism with War on

  Drugs,”

  “Remaining Awake Through a Great

  Revolution,”

  reparations

  Reston, James

  Revlon

  Rhythm and Blues Foundation

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Ridley, John

  Roach, Max

  Robeson, Paul

  Robinson, Sylvia

  Rochester, New York

  Rock, Chris

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  drug laws

  Rock Steady Crew

  Roland Corporation

  Roland TR-

  Rhythm Composer

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roots, The

  Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Haley) (novel and miniseries)

  Roots to Freedom

  Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for

  Self Development

  Rosa Parks Story, The

  Rubin, Rick

  RUN-D.M.C.

  Run-D.M.C.

  Sabreena Da Witch

  Sanabria, Eric

  Sanchez, Sonia

  Sandanistas

  Sanford, Isabel

  San Francisco Chronicle

  Saul, Scott

  Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (Kozol)

  Savio, Mario

  “Say It Loud—I’m Black and Proud!,”

  schools, see education Schultz, Brandon

  Schultz, Michael

  Score, The

  scratching

  Seale, Bobby

  search and seizure, Fourth Amendment rights and

  segregation

  self-education

  Senegal

  Sensenbrenner, James

  Sentencing Project

  “Separation or Integration: A Debate,”

  service sector

  sexism

  see also misogyny

  Shahdah, Owen Alik

  Shakespeare, William

  Shakur, Assata

  Shakur, Dr. Mutulu

  Shakur, Tupac

  the police and

  C. Delores Tucker and

  Shaping of Black America, The (Bennett)

  sharecropping

  Shecter, Jon

  Sherman, Maj. Gen. William

  “Shorty Want a Be a Thug,”

  Sigel, Beanie

  Silverman, Tommy

  Simmons, Joseph “Rev Run,”

  Simmons, Russell

  Simpson, O. J.

  Sisulu, Walter

  Skipper, Joseph

  Sklar, Holly

  slavery

  education about

  field Negroes and house Negroes

  image control and

  Mexico and fugitive slaves

  “pattie rollers,”

  prison labor as

  reparations

  Smith, Alton

  Smith, Bessie

  Smith, Tommie

  Snipes, Wesley

  Snoop Doggy Dogg

  Social Security

  Soledad Brother (Jackson)

  Soledad Brothers

  Solomon, Alisa

  “So Many Tears,”

  “Somebody Blew Up America,”

  Sony

  Sony BMG

  soul

  Soul Train

  Source, The

  South Africa

  apartheid in

  South Central

  Soweto, Black township of

  Special Field Orders, No.

  Spelman College

  Starski, Lovebug

  state property

  Stedman, John Gabriel

  stereotypes and their effects, negative racial

  Stewart, Michael

  Stewart, Rex

  Stop the Violence Movement

  Storm Troopers of Nazi Germany

  Straight Outta Compton

  Strauss, Neil

  Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC)

  Styles P

  suburbs, white flight to the

  Sugar Hill Gang

  Sugar Hill Records

  suicide

  “Suicide Rate Climbing for Black

  Teens: Move to Middle Class May

  Cause Identity Crisis,”

  Sun City

  Super Imagrante

  Superville, Judge Chuck

  Supplemental Security Income

  Supreme Court

  Brown v. Board of Education

  Dred Scott vs. Sandford

  prison labor decision

  Sweet Gee

  synergy

  tagging, competitive

  TAKI

  Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (hooks)

  television, see mass media Tempest, The

  Temple University

  Ph.D. in African-American studies

  Terry, Jason

  Texas Instruments

  There Is Confusion (Fauset)

  Thiong’o, Ngugi wa

  Thirteenth Amendment

  Thomas, Justice Clarence

  Thoreau, Henry David

  time line of events shaping hip hop

  1965

  1966

  1967

  1968

  1969

  1970

  1971

  1972

  1973

  1974

  1975

  1976

  1977

  1978

  1979

  1980

  1981

  1982

  1983

  1984

  1985

  1986

  1987

  1988

  1989

  1990

  1991

  Time magazine

  Time Warner

  “To Althea, From Prison” (Lovelace)

  Tommy Boy Records

  To the Break of Dawn (Cobb)

  Toys “R” Us

  “Trapped,”

  Truman, Harry S.

  Tubman, Harriet

  Tucker, C. Delores,

  Ture, Kwame

  Turner, Nat

  Tuskegee Experiments

  TWA

  Live Crew

  “Two Sets of Notes,”

  ubuntu (“humanity toward others”)

  Uhuru Movement

  Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”)

  unemployment

  unemployment insurance

  unions

  United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

  U.S. Public Health Service

  Universal Declaration of Human

  Rights

  Universal Music Group

  Universal Pictures

  Univer
sity of Michigan

  urban crisis

  Urban Institute

  Urban Renewal

  “U.S. Urban Youth Market: Targeting

  the Trendsetters, The,”

  USA/Harris polls

  USA Today

  US Organization

  Van Peebles, Mario

  Viacom

  “Vicious Rap,”

  Victoria’s Secret

  Vietnam War

  demonstrations against

  Village Voice, The

  violence

  Black-on-Black

  inner-city

  numbness to

  Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act of 1994

  Vivendi

  Volpe, Justin

  voting rights, ex-convicts and

  Voting Rights Act of 1965

  Wacquant, Loic

  Walker, Alice

  Walker, David

  Warner Bros.

  Warner Bros. Records

  Warner Music Group

  War on Drugs

  Washington, D.C.

  Watergate scandal

  Waters, Maxine

  Watts community

  race rebellion in

  Wayans, brothers

  “We Are the Post-Hip-Hop Generation,”

  welfare benefits

  Welfare Poets

  Wells, Reggie

  We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (hooks)

  “We Shall Overcome,”

  West, Cornel

  West, Kanye

  “What Ya Like Like,”

  “When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling

  Rain,”

  Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (King)

  white audience for Black music

  “White Lines, Don’t Do It,”

  white supremacy

  Wiesel, Elie

  Wild Style (film)

  Wild Style tour

  Williams, Evelyn

  Williams, Saul

  Wilson, August

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Winley, Tanya “Sweet Tee,”

  “Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom,”

  Wolof language

  “Wonderful World of Law and Order, The,”

  Woodson, Carter G.

  workers’ compensation

  Work Opportunity and Personal

  Responsibility Act of 1996

  World War I

  World War II

  “World War III,”

  Wray, Harmon

  Wright, Richard

  WRKS

  Yo! MTV Raps

  Zakia/4th & Broadway Records

  Zangwill, Israel

  Zayyad, Pawfiq

  Zimbabwe

  Zimring, Franklin

  Zuberi, Dr. Tukufu

  Zulu Nation

 

 

 


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