Its Bigger Than the Government: Literature, Politics and Pedagogy in the Age of Hip Hop
Call for Papers Date: 2009-08-07
This call for papers seeks social scientists with a special interest in political scientists, sociologists and interdisciplinary scholars. This project seeks to assess hip-hop culture’s impact on contemporary American politics and political participation. In addition the project will assess the pedagogical implications of hip hop studies, how and why the culture has revived early twentieth century debates on African American political culture and its impact on the framing of resistant political identities nationally and globally. Additional topics that would be of interest include hip hop culture and rap music’s impact on identity formation with regard to gender (though there have been some book-length studies published in this area recently) and/or race, ethnicity, geography in the era of globalization, as well as hip hop’s function within contemporary African American religion and spirituality. There is also a desire to analyze themes within hip hop political discourse such as discussions of the Southern region and critiques of societal institutions.
Veronica Womack
Georgia College & State University
CBX 018
Milledgeville GA 31061
Email: veronica.womack@gcsu.edu
