Fight the Power: Law and Policy through Hip-Hop Songs

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.