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Author Pough, Gwendolyn D., 1970-

Title Check it while I wreck it : Black womanhood, hip hop culture, and the public sphere / Gwendolyn D. Pough.

Publication Info. Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E185.86 .P666 2004    Available  ---
Description xiii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
Contents Hip hop is more than just music to me : the potential for a movement in the culture -- Bringing wreck : theorizing race, rap, gender, and the public sphere -- My cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone : Black women's expressive cultures and Black feminist legacies -- I bring wreck to those who disrespect me like a dame : women, rap, and the rhetoric of wreck -- (Re)reconstructing womanhood : Black women's narratives in hip hop culture -- Girls in the hood and other ghetto dramas : representing Black womanhood in hip hop cinema and novels -- Hip hop soul mate? : Hip hop soul divas and rap music, critiquing the love that hate produced -- You can't see me/you betta recognize : using rap to bridge gaps in the classroom -- Imagining images : Black womanhood in the 21st century.
Subject African American women -- Social conditions.
African American women -- Social conditions.
Hip-hop -- United States.
Hip-hop.
United States.
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
Rap (Music)
Popular culture -- United States.
Popular culture.
ISBN 1555536077 paperback alkaline paper
1555536085 cloth alkaline paper