Hip hop as philosophical text and testimony : can I get a witness? / Lissa Skitolsky.

"The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hip-hop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide and trauma as a reflection of the neolib...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Philosophy of race.
Main Author: Skitolsky, Lissa, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Series:Philosophy of race.
Subjects:
Hip-hop > Social aspects > United States.
Culture conflict > United States.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Racism > United States.
Violence > United States.
Hip-hop > Philosophy.
Culture conflict.
Racism.
Violence.
United States.
Physical Description:xiii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop
  • Know What I'm Sayin?
  • Can I Get a Witness?
  • Claimin I'm a Criminal
  • But You Don't Hear Me Tho
  • You Feel Me?
  • Fuck Tha Police
  • Conclusion: The Aesthetic Politics of Underground Hip-Hop.