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,”…
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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…
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Shadow/Fade is a book-length essay about the 2022 meaning of our aging political prisoners. It’s a personal, polemical work with literary pretensions in the tradition of James Baldwin, Kevin Powell and Ta-Nehisi Coates. A first-person act of remembering on 2021 Memorial Day seemed appropriate as both the first George Floyd anniversary and the Tulsa massacre…
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