The Hip Hop & Obama Reader

Preface About the Contributors Foreword Tricia Rose, Brown University Introduction: The State of Hip Hop in the Age of Obama Erik Nielson, University of Richmond Travis L. Gosa, Cornell University PART I: MOVE THE CROWD: HIP HOP POLITICS IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD 1. Message from the Grassroots: Hip Hop Activism, Millennials, and the Race for the White House Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut 2. It's Bigger Than Barack: Hip Hop Political Organizing, 2004-2013 Elizabeth Méndez Berry, New York University Bakari Kitwana, Author and CEO, Rap Sessions 3. "There Are No Saviors": Hip Hop and Community Activism in the Obama Era Kevin Powell, Author and Activist 4. "Obama Nation": Hip Hop and Global Protest Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York 5. "Record! I am Arab": Paranoid Arab Boys, Global Cyphers, and Hip Hop Nationalism Torie Rose DeGhett, Columbia University PART II: CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN? THE CONTESTED DISCOURSE OF OBAMA & HIP HOP 6. Obama, Hip Hop, African American History, and "Historical Revivalism" Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University 7. "Change That Wouldn't Fill a Homeless Man's Cup Up": Filipino-American Political Hip Hop and Community Organizing in the Age of Obama Anthony Kwame Harrison, Virginia Tech 8. Obama/Time: The President in the Hip-Hop Nation Murray Forman, Northeastern University 9. One Day It Will All Make Sense: Obama, Politics and Common Sense Charlie Braxton, Author and Activist 10. "New Slaves": The Soul of Hip-Hop Sold to Da Massah in the Age of Obama Raphael Heaggans, Niagara University PART III: REPRESENT: GENDER AND LANGUAGE IN THE OBAMA ERA 11. YouTube and Bad Bitches: Hip Hop's Seduction Of Girls and The Distortion Of Participatory Culture Kyra D. Gaunt, City University of New York 12. A Performative Account of Black Girlhood Ruth Nicole Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 13. The King's English: Obama, Jay Z, and the Science of Code Switching Michael P. Jeffries, Wellesley College 14. My President is Black: Speech Act Theory and Presidential Allusions in the Lyrics of Rap Music James Peterson and Cynthia Estremera, Lehigh University Afterword: When Will Black Lives Matter? Neoliberalism, Democracy, and the Queering of American Activism in the Post-Obama Era Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago Subject Index