Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture (Contemporary Black History)

Considers The Misappropriation Of African American Popular Culture Through Various Genres, Largely Hip Hop, To Argue That While Such Cultural Creations Have The Potential To Be Healing Agents, They Are Still Exploited -often With The Complicity Of African Americans- For Commercial Purposes And To Maintain White Ruling Class Hegemony. Soul Thieves: White America And The Appropriation Of Hip Hop And Black Culture / Baruti N. Kopano -- The Appropriation Of Blackness In Ego Trip's The (white) Rapper Show / Carlos D. Morrison And Ronald L. Jackson Ii -- Cash Rules Everything Around Me: Appropriation, Commodification, And The Politics Of Contemporary Protest Music And Hip Hop / Diarra Osei Roberton -- I'm Hip: An Exploration Of Rap Music's Creative Guise / Kawachi Clemmons -- Foraging Fashion: African American Influences On Cultural Aesthetics / Abena Lewis-mhoon -- In The Eye Of The Beholder: Definitions Of Beauty In Popular Black Magazines / Kimberly Brown -- Neutering The Black Power Movement: The Hijacking Of Protest Symbolism / James B. Stewart -- A Silent Protest: The 1968 Olympiad And The Appropriation Of Black Athletic Power / Jamal Ratchford -- Imagining A Strange New World: Racial Integration And Social Justice Advocacy In Marvel Comics, 1966-1980 / David Taft Terry -- So You Think You Can Dance: Black Dance And American Popular Culture / Tamara Lizette Brown. Edited By Tamara Lizette Brown And Baruti N. Kopano. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture is a timely and engaging multidisciplinary collection of essays that examines both historically and contemporary manifestations of appropriated and commodified forms of African American popular culture. The book includes analyses of the misuse and in some cases outright abuse of black popular culture through various genres. Hip hop is, and has been, one of the most dominant African American popular culture creations and is denoted in many of the offerings in this volume; however, Soul Thieves is a historically inclusive documentation of the misappropriation of black popular culture, thus spanning other areas and genres besides the contemporary and current craze including music, dance, television, film, fashion and beauty, sports, and popular fiction. This book documents that historically African Americans have been in the forefront in the creation of American popular culture. It is suitable for classroom adoption, supplemental reading and general reading Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii Soul Thieves: White America and the Appropriation of Hip Hop and Black Culture....Pages 1-14 The Appropriation of Blackness in Ego Trip’s The (White) Rapper Show....Pages 15-30 Cash Rules Everything around Me: Appropriation, Commodification, and the Politics of Contemporary Protest Music and Hip Hop....Pages 31-49 I’m Hip: An Exploration of Rap Music’s Creative Guise....Pages 51-60 Foraging Fashion: African American Influences on Cultural Aesthetics....Pages 61-75 In the Eye of the Beholder: Definitions of Beauty in Popular Black Magazines....Pages 77-90 Neutering the Black Power Movement: The Hijacking of Protest Symbolism....Pages 91-108 A Silent Protest: The 1968 Olympiad and the Appropriation of Black Athletic Power....Pages 109-149 Imagining a Strange New World: Racial Integration and Social Justice Advocacy in Marvel Comics, 1966–1980....Pages 151-199 So You Think You Can Dance: Black Dance and American Popular Culture....Pages 201-267 Back Matter....Pages 269-284