Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson joined us to discuss her book Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles. We talked about Black and Brown histories, hip-hop, identity and pop culture, as well as, the appropriation of political struggle, “si se puede” to “yes we can.”
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