Readings for today:
- Excerpt from Robin D.G. Kelley, “Kickin’ Reality, Kickin’ Ballistics: ‘Gangsta Rap’ and Postindustrial Los Angeles,” in Race Rebels (New York: Free Press, 1994), pp. 183-227.
- Listening assignment: TBA
- In-class screening of Slingshot Hip Hop (a documentary about hip hop in Palestine and Israel)
Keywords: hip hop, postindustrialism, criminalization, masculinity, cultural critique
