The Original Renegade

Renegades ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Trevor Boffone
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Digital Community ◽  
Celebrity Status ◽  
Origin Story

This chapter provides a critical framework for understanding the symbiotic relationship between hip hop and Dubsmash. Influenced by scholarship in critical race theory, gender studies, and hip hop, this chapter explores how Renegades have forged an inclusive digital community through Dubsmash. This chapter argues that Dubsmash’s culture of giving credit is the nexus from which a shared sense of values grows, one that encourages Dubsmashers to recognize the work of other artists. To demonstrate this, this chapter uses Jalaiah Harmon, the “Original Renegade,” as a case study. Harmon’s origin story from anonymous viral dance creator to full-blown celebrity status demonstrates how hip hop values operate in the Dubsmash community.

Posthuman Rap

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Adams Burton
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Discrete Argument ◽  
Sylvia Wynter

Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity is shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace that favors whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, and fixed gender identities. But musicians from Nicki Minaj to Future to Rae Sremmurd deploy queerness and sonic blackness as they imagine different ways of being human. Building on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Weheliye, Lester Spence, L.H. Stallings, and a broad swath of queer and critical race theory, Posthuman Rap turns an ear especially toward hip hop that is often read as apolitical in order to hear its posthuman possibilities, its construction of a humanity that is blacker, queerer, more feminine than the norm. While each chapter is written so that it can be sectioned off from the rest and read with a focus on the discrete argument contained in it, the chapters are not meant to be individual case studies. Rather, each builds on the previous one so that the book should best function if it is read in sequence, as a journey that lands us in a posthuman vestibule where we can party more freely and hear the music more clearly if we’ve traveled through the rest of the book to get there.

Sampling Poetry, Pedagogy, and Protest to Build Methodology: Critical Poetic Inquiry as Culturally Relevant Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-124
Author(s):  
Camea Davis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Relevant Pedagogy

This article argues for a culturally relevant methodology that can aid minoritized and justice-oriented qualitative researchers in amplifying and sustaining the cultural epistemologies and counter-stories of minoritized research participants. The author uses the hip hop aesthetic of sampling as a structural metaphor to assemble the elements of a culturally relevant methodology capable of protest by sampling from the arts-based method of poetic inquiry, culturally relevant pedagogy, and critical race theory. This article explains criteria for a culturally relevant methodology of critical poetic inquiry and provides examples of research poetry that meet the criteria.

scholarly journals And ya don’t stop: investigating race, space and meaning in Toronto’s queer party ‘Yes Yes Y’all’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Jane Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
And Gender

This Major Research Paper (MRP) is a case study of the queer hip hop and dancehall party Yes Yes Y’all (YYY). This MRP seeks to challenge white, cismale metanarratives in Toronto’s queer community. This paper employs Critical Race Theory (CRT) and queer theory as theoretical frameworks. Racialization, racism, homophobia, homonormativities and homonational rhetoric within queer discourses are interrogated throughout the analysis. In pursuit of this research, five participants and two key informants were interviewed. Four emergent themes are explored: fluid identities, the intersection of race and sexuality, dancing as expression of sexuality and gender identity, and the transgressive possibilities of YYY.

scholarly journals And ya don’t stop: investigating race, space and meaning in Toronto’s queer party ‘Yes Yes Y’all’

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trudie Jane Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
And Gender

This Major Research Paper (MRP) is a case study of the queer hip hop and dancehall party Yes Yes Y’all (YYY). This MRP seeks to challenge white, cismale metanarratives in Toronto’s queer community. This paper employs Critical Race Theory (CRT) and queer theory as theoretical frameworks. Racialization, racism, homophobia, homonormativities and homonational rhetoric within queer discourses are interrogated throughout the analysis. In pursuit of this research, five participants and two key informants were interviewed. Four emergent themes are explored: fluid identities, the intersection of race and sexuality, dancing as expression of sexuality and gender identity, and the transgressive possibilities of YYY.

scholarly journals A Critical Case Study of Selected U.S. History Textbooks from a Tribal Critical Race Theory Perspective

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Padgett
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Tribal Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Case Study

The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the portrayal of American Indians in U.S. textbooks selected for review in Hillsborough County, Florida’s 2012 textbook adoption. The study identified which of the textbooks under consideration contained the greatest amount of information dedicated to American Indians and analyzed how that information was portrayed. The exploratory question that guided this study was, under what conditions can Tribal Critical Race Theory help illuminate how American Indians are portrayed in textbooks? The methodology used is a critical case study (Janesick, 2004; Rubin & Rubin, 2005). The Five Great Values, as developed by Sanchez (2007), are Generosity and Sharing, Respect for Women and the Elderly, Getting Along with Nature, Individual Freedom, and Courage and were used in the organization, coding, and analysis of the data. The theoretical framework that guides this study is Tribal Critical Race Theory (Brayboy, 2005), created in order to address issues from an indigenous perspective. This study found that while overt racism has declined, colonialism and assimilation were still used as models when American Indians were depicted in the five selected textbooks. It also discovered the portrayal of American Indian women to be particularly influenced by the models of colonialism and assimilation.

scholarly journals Old Law, New Tech, and Citizen-Created Hashtags: #BlackLivesMatter and the Case for Provisional Hashtag Marks

2020 ◽  
pp. 107769902092816
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Mahin ◽  
Victoria Smith Ekstrand
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Secondary Meaning ◽  
The U.S

Using #BlackLivesMatter as a case study, this research documents the tensions and harms associated with trademarking online social movement hashtags. Grounded in the work of critical race theory and intellectual property scholars, this study analyzes the inconsistencies in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application practice. The contradictions signal a limited or “mis”understanding of the utility of citizen-created hashtags and online social movement slogans. We propose a provisional networked trademark that would grant limited protection to social movements to show that their marks demonstrate the kind of secondary meaning required for a traditional trademark.

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