Hip-Hop’s Effect on African-American Feminists

Kelli Hickey Cheryl Hitosis English161 December 7, 2007 Hip-Hops Effect on African-American Feminists Annotated Bibliog bashhy Davis, Eisa. Sexism and the Art of Feminists Hip-Hop Maintenance. To be Real Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York secure Books, 1995. 131-139. Davis points out that not all feminists are taking the concept of sexism so casually and also _ believes that rap lyrics are not the only cause for the degradation of black-market women. minacious _ _ men have precondition black women a place where they can gain public acceptance in outular _ _ culture. _DiPrima, Dominique. Women in Rap. Hotwire. May 1991 36. Salt-N-Pepa is introduced and this tells how they make a statement in hip-hop music _ through their lyrics. DiPrima dialog active the groups female empowerment that became_ _ present in their songs. _ Emerson, Rana. African-American Teenage Girls and the Construction of Black Womanhood in Mass Media and Popular Culture. 88. Emers on says the lyrics make racism calculate normal and acceptable. In contrast, black girls _ remain confident in themselves. They use popular culture to make their lives more meaningful _ _ and stub out themselves. Niesel, Jeff. Hip-Hop Matters Rewriting the Sexual Politics of Rap Music. Third Wave Agenda Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Minneapolis U of Minneapolis P, 1997. 242-245. Niesel states rap music is exploitative, but it also plays a significant role in enforcing _ feminists principles. He says at that place are rappers out there who use their rap to advocate _ _ treating women fairly, and bring awareness of social problems. _ Pilgrim, Dr. David. Jezebel. July 2002. http//www. ferris. edu/ intelligence service/jimcrow/jezebel. Pilgrim says black women have always been viewed as sexually promiscuous.These views _ still carry on in pop culture today. He also talks about(predicate) how black women were viewed in the _ _ times of Foxy chocolate-brown and Lil Kim. _ Pough, Gwendolyn D. Love Feminism but Wheres My Hip-Hop? Colonize This Young Women of Color on straight offs Feminism. New York Seal Press, 2002. 91-92. Pough talks about the need for African-American men to exploit women in music due to _ women gave her courage as a issue women to use confrontations in her own life. Also, she _ _ talks about good verses bad work ethic among black women in music videos. Rose, Tricia. Tricia Rose on Hip-Hop. Interview with Princeton University. Program in the Study of Women and Gender. Dec. 1993. Rose talks about the bad effect of young women listening to degrading lyrics and believing _ them. Additionally, she says that when a woman makes a justifiable critique, men make it _ _ seem like some sort of PMS attack. _ Valenti, Jessica. Full Frontal Feminism. New York Seal Press, 2007. 10. Valenti talks about the third wave feminist movement and how it uses personal narratives, _ unlike prior waves of feminism. _