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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s?

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  September 05, 2012

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  Kung Fu and Cowboys: Hip Hop Cinema in the 1970s? youth culture transnational radicalism race popular culture multiracial kung fu hip hop cowboy colonialism breaking breakdance b-boy 1970s Curator's Note We should consider popular 1970s films as pref ...
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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  narrative

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  Anthony C. Bleach Kutztown University

  Wednesday, September 5, 2012 — 2:25 am

  "realness" to the threat of possible co-optation by uptown monied interests. Could this be why these early ...
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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Hi Aaron!

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  David Z. Morris University of South Florida

  Tuesday, September 4, 2012 — 6:10 pm

  between people who are on the 'wrong' side of a legacy of racism so mind-bendingly horrific ...
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  Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay

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  Rachel Raimist University of Alabama

  September 04, 2012

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  Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay independent hip-hop hip-hop feminism Hip-Hop Cinema Curator's Note In Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop Jeff Chang writes, “Hip-hop began as an early ‘70s youth street culture in New York City, w ...
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  Re: Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

  Great Post, Aaron

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  Cutler Edwards UC San Diego

  Monday, September 3, 2012 — 9:53 pm

  interaction, and possibility. Reifying hip hop as black circumscribes those possibilities, even as it continues ...
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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  September 03, 2012

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  Hip-hopsploitation: Representing 1980s Hip-hop in Wild Style and Beat Street Wild Style racial politics Race/Ethnicity hip-hopsploitation Hip-Hop Cinema hip-hop cinema Beat Street 1980s Curator's Note If such a thing as “hip-hop cinema” exists, it wa ...
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  Raphael Saadiq's Soul Memories

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  Michael D Dwyer Arcadia University

  August 30, 2012

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  "Big Easy"—a feeling of horror at the conditions that made Katrina possible, and the longing for ...
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  Re: Hipster Archaeology

  To chime in here - I think

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  Andrew Seroff Unattached (ND '11)

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012 — 5:47 pm

  through video game audiences. A unique characteristic of the medium- the endless possibility of ...
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  Re: Hipster Archaeology

  An underexplored topic

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  Andrew Seroff Unattached (ND '11)

  Monday, August 27, 2012 — 7:05 pm

  One' as a popular take, yet constructive form of video game nostalgia- that addresses the possibility ...
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  Re: Politics Is Funny, But Nothing To Laugh At: The Daily Show And Its Limits

  Thank you, not just contrarianism

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  Sudeep Sharma UCLA

  Monday, August 27, 2012 — 7:56 am

  possibilities and connections for fans that requires in-depth academic research. While it is easy to dismiss my ... attempting to introduce the possibly objectionable idea The Daily Show is another dispiriting component of ...

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