Fight the Power: Law and Policy through Hip-Hop Songs
- Editor: Cooper, Frank Rudy
- Editor: Parks, Gregory S.
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Contents
- Introduction;
- Part I . Policing:
- 1. From 'Fuck tha Police' to defund the police: a polemic, with elements of pragmatism and accommodation, hopefully not fatal, as black people hope about encounters with the police Paul Butler;
- 2. Hip hop and traffic stops Henry L. Chambers, Jr.;
- 3. 'Black Cop': it's a blue thing (or is it?) Kami Chavis;
- 4. 'Illegal Search': race, personhood, and policing Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.;
- 5. 'Cops Shot the Kid': police brutality, mass incarceration, and the reasonableness doctrine in criminal law Kristin Henning;
- Part II . Imprisonment:
- 6. Trauma andre douglas pond cummings;
- 7. Black steel in the hour of chaos Gregory S. Parks;
- Part III . Genders:
- 8. Roxanne Shante's 'Independent Woman': making space for women in hip hop Lolita Buckner Innis;
- 9. From the 1930s to the 2020s: what ice cube's song 'Endangered Species' meant for four generations of black males Robert Pervine, Kevin Brown, Charles Westerhaus, and Kynton Grays;
- 10. The master's tools will not dismantle the master's house: hip hop, young M.A., and gender norms Zoe Smith-Holladay and Catherine Smith;
- Part IV . Protests:
- 11. 'Black Rage' and the architecture of racial oppression Deborah Archer;
- 12. Abolition as reparations: 'This is America' and the anatomy of a modern protest anthem Brie McLemore and Margaret Eby;
- 13. The message: resisting cultures of poverty in urban America Etienne C. Toussaint;
- 14. 'Just To Get By': poverty, racism, and smoking through the lens of Talib Kweli and Nina Simone's music Ruqaiijah Yearby.