num_pages: 346
description: For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music artists scholars and activists have discussed promoted and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social injustices and then zoom in on artists whose work has accomplished these ends. The volume explores topics including education and pedagogy; the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of crime punishment and mass incarceration; electoral politics; gender and sexuality; and the global struggle for social justice. Ultimately the book argues that Hip-Hop is much more than a musical genre or cultural form: Hip-Hop is a resistance mechanism.
language: English
title: For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice
publisher: University of Michigan Press