From Black Power to Hip Hop

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Name From Power		Author Patricia Hill Collins

Role Book by Patricia Hill Collins Similar Black Sexual Politics: A, Black Feminist Thought, Race - Class - and Gender, Singing Bel Canto: Art and Scie, On Intellectual Activism
Originally published January 1, 2006

From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism is the title of a non-fiction book written by Patricia Hill Collins. Published in 2006 by Temple University Press, the book analyzes issues as diverse as family planning, Afrocentrism, and the role of African-American women in the hip-hop movement.

The book is divided into three parts:

Race, Family, and the US nation-state
Ethnicity, Culture, and Black Nationalist politics
Feminism, Nationalism, and African-American Women.

Each section has two long essays with the fifth essay totalling thirty-eight pages.

List of Essays

Like One of the Family: Race, Ethnicity, and the Paradox of American National Identity (section 1)

Will the "Real" Mother Please Stand Up? Race, Class, and American National Family Planning (section 1)

Black Nationalism and African American Ethnicity: Afrocentrism as Civil Religion (section 2)

When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism (section 2)

Why Collective Identity Politics Matter: Feminism, Nationalism, and Black Women's Community Work (section 3)

Is the Personal Still Political? The Women's Movement, Feminism, and Black Women in the Hip-Hip Generation

References

From Black Power to Hip Hop Wikipedia

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