Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop [electronic resource] : An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody /
Hejtmanek, Katie Rose.author.
Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America. While the youth in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they also productively maneuver through what the author analyzes as the 'give' - friendship, love, and hip hop - in the system.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: CONTEXTS -- 1. Histories and Social Contexts -- 2. The Ethnographic Setting -- PART II: LIFE AT HAVENWOOD -- 3. Institutional Living -- 4. Crazy Shit -- 5. A Keepin' It Real Group -- 6. Kickin' It -- 7. Becoming Good Men -- PART III: SUBJECTS AND POWER -- 8. A Hip-Hop-Therapeutic Subjectivity -- 9. Mad Love: Theorizing and Politicizing Transformation.
Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America. While the youth in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they also productively maneuver through what the author analyzes as the 'give' - friendship, love, and hip hop - in the system.
Social groups.
Family.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Ethnology.
African Americans.
Ethnicity.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Crime and Society.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
African American Culture.
Ethnicity Studies.