Soul Thieves

The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture

• Author(s): T. Brown, B. Kopano,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Pages: 284
• ISBN_10: 0230108911
  ISBN_13: 9780230108912
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Social History , History / United States / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Social Science / Media Studies , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , History / General ,

Description:... 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.