Blacking Up: Hip-Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity [Trailer]
Already borrowing the video from JumpTheTurnstyle, but I had to take the blurb on it too; Farone did it better than I could…
I’m sure that I don’t have to say much in order to rile JTTS readers about this one. Personally, I’m not sure how I feel about the repeated efforts to academically negotiate white participation in hip-hop, but my guess is that everyone else around here has a heated opinion.
Either way – this new film, Blacking Up, is sure to serve as a great conversation piece for lots of college kids who have no clue about rap culture. Also; it will likely provide more than a few laughs for irony-mongering Vanilla Ice fans and those of us who love watching skinny white dudes in giant tees make complete fools out of themselves. The following is from the press release:
Blacking Up explores tensions surrounding white participation in hip-hop. Popularly referred to by derogatory terms such as “wannabe” or “wigger,” the figure of the white person who identifies with hip-hop often invokes heated responses. For some, it is an example of cultural progress – a movement toward a color-blind America. For others, it is just another case of cultural theft and mockery – a repetition of a racist past.
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Great post by Christ and our friends at JTTS.
I’ll be short right now but as a Latino that grew up in Hiphop Kulture even if I didn’t always know what it was, I find it offensive that so many suburbanites try to redefine what Hiphop is without paying dues. Dues are not paid in front of a crowd of your childhood buddies at the Middle East. Sure you can freestyle off the dome but you have less to say than your commercial counterparts that you diss.
who is Christ? and “Hip-Hop Kulture” wtf?
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