Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere (review)

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Marnie Binfield
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Black Womanhood ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

The Seeds of a Black Movement?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Pilar Clealand
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Racial Consciousness ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Racial Dialogue ◽  
Black Movement ◽  
Black Public Opinion

The last chapter of the book, chapter 9, takes a look at formal or above-ground expressions of racial consciousness in Cuba and the development of a space, albeit a small one, for racial dialogue on the island. The chapter looks at organizations that were created after the political opening in the 1990s to address issues of discrimination, and how their focus and influence affect the debate that is beginning to circulate around race. It also highlights how the hip-hop movement, one of the most important and far-reaching messengers of black consciousness in Cuba, uses music to insert a new racial rhetoric into the public sphere that has not been heard prior to this period. Finally, the chapter joins the under- and above-ground components of black consciousness to show that black public opinion regarding organization and activism often aligns with what elites and writing about in the public sphere.

scholarly journals Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi: Radical Wanderings, Gestures of Terror and Fugitivity in Flesh*

Cadernos Pagu ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabiana Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Current Output ◽  
Black Womanhood ◽  
The Public ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Aesthetic Procedures

Abstract In this essay, I provide a brief overview of Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi’s artistic output (works created between 2012 and 2018), focusing on some of her performances, ephemeral live actions, and writings. At the same time, I read Mattiuzzi’s practice in dialogue with a few other black woman artists from Brazil, thus offering one provisional and short mapping of the current output from black Brazilian artists. Through this mapping, I attempt to provide an expanded understanding of contemporary artistic production in Brazil and offer some insights on particular interventions to the field that have been made by black Brazilian artists. I also argue that, through what I am naming radical wanderings, Mattiuzzi stretches and deepens the tension created by her body and presence (and by art) in the public sphere, thus making a radical expansion on the discussion proposed by some of her contemporaries about black womanhood in Brazil. Moreover, I argue that Mattiuzzi’s aesthetic procedures (re)present a theoretical feminist intervention.

Gendering Voice

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-159
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Appert
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Traditional Music ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Female Self ◽  
Urban Men ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Youth Music

Through a discussion of Gotal, a women’s collective, this chapter shows how gendered analysis problematizes constructions of hip hop as a youth music. While young urban men experience a newfound mobility that allows the construction of widespread hip hop networks, familial and social concerns over female sexuality limit young women’s movements through public (hip hop) space. In focusing on expression in the public sphere, and in rejecting traditional music as easy and feminine, hip hop constructions of voice underestimate and effectively silence indigenous modes of female self-expression. Female rappers still seek to mobilize hip hop voice, however, and counter these narratives through discourses of family and work. Flipping the script on hip hop tropes of the underground, they position their own marginalization as a badge of hip hop authenticity.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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