Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
By (Author) Lester K. Spence
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st August 2011
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
Social discrimination and social justice
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
Ethnic studies
782.421649
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 18mm
Description
Rap's critique of police brutality in the 1980s. The Hip Hop Political Convention. The rise (and fall) of Kwame Kilpatrick, the "hip-hop mayor" of Detroit. Barack Obama echoing the body language of Jay-Z on the campaign trail. By considering the possibilities inherent in the most prolific and prominent activities of hip-hop politics, Stare in the Darkness reveals, in a clear and practical manner, the political consequences of rap culture for black publics.
Reviews
"In Stare in the Darkness, Lester K. Spence brings an essential degree of clarity and precision to our understandings of popular culture and political expression. This book is engaging and nuanced, and it will enrich in an original fashion our understanding of hip-hop as well as black politics." Richard Iton, author of In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
"Stare in the Darkness offers brilliant insight into the political realities of contemporary black life. More importantly though, Stare in the Darkness is remixed, chopped and screwed in ways that hip-hop heads will certainly love and more than a few social scientists will find great value in." Mark Anthony Neal, coeditor of Thats the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
Author Bio
Lester K. Spence is assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.
