Dr. Greg Thomas was with us this hour of Jazz and Justice to discuss the anti-colonialism in his work. Thomas offers important answers to questions of the representation of the work of Frantz Fanon, the absence of George Jackson in liberation literature, the “sex radicalism” of Lil’ Kim, the colonialist impulses in contemporary “Hip-Hop Studies,”…
Read moreHip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? by Greg Thomas
Mi Say WAR: Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? (A Review of Tricia Rose’s The Hip-Hop Wars, For Example) by Greg Thomas “It’s bigger than religion Hip-Hop It’s bigger than my nigga Hip-Hop It’s bigger than the government [Erykah Badu, “The Healer / Hip-Hop” (2008)] And it’s much bigger than academic criticism, for sure. Sylvia…
Read moreNew Books Network Interview: A Lie of Reinvention Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
The book isn’t new but this interview is! We talked about the politics of Malcolm X historiography, memory, and ideas even in 2020. Jared A. Ball and Todd Burroughs Dec 22, 2020 A Lie of Reinvention Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X 2012 This is part of our Special Series on Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. In…
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