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Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony: Can I Get a Witness?

Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony: Can I Get a Witness?

Skitolsky, Lissa

Hardcover

Series: Philosophy of Race

PhilosophyGeneral World HistoryHip Hop

ISBN10: 1498566707
ISBN13: 9781498566704
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 16 2020
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Hip-hop as survivor testimony? Rhymes as critical text? Drawing on her own experiences as a lifelong hip-hop head and philosophy professor, Lissa Skitolsky reveals the existential power of hip-hop to affect our sensibility and understanding of race and anti-black racism. Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony: Can I Get a Witness? examines how the exclusion of hip-hop from academic discourse around knowledge, racism, white supremacy, genocide, white nationalism, and trauma reflects the very neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes. At this critical moment in history, in the midst of a long overdue global reckoning with systemic anti-black racism, Skitolsky shows how it is more important than ever for white people to realize that our failure to see this system--and take hip-hop seriously--has been essential to its reproduction. In this book, she illustrates the unique power of underground hip-hop to interrupt our neoliberal and post-racial sensibility of current events.

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