For the culture: hip-hop and the fight for social justice

Intro: “Doing It for the Culture”

Section One: Activism or Perpetuation? Hip-Hoppers, Protest Movements, and Mass Incarceration
Chapter One – Belk, Adolphus G., Jr. “Going Upstate: Challenging Mass Imprisonment in New York State”

Chapter Two – Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta M., Lestina Dongo, and Michael Westberg. “This is America: Hip-Hop and the Black Lives Matter Movement”

Chapter Three – Ogbar, Jeffrey O.G. “Criminal Minded: The War on Drugs, Social Justice, Policing, and Hip-Hop”

Chapter Four – Baptist, Najja K. “‘And When They Wake-Up’: Black Lives Matter, Rap, and Activism”

Section Two: Old School and New School Methods of Political Engagement
Chapter Five – Hemphill, Portia R. “Made You Look: Leaders Speak to the Power of Black Youth Rap Music Consumption and Political Action”

Chapter Six – Napoli, Sarah. “Everyday Rights: Creating Rights Identities within the Midwest Rap Community”

Chapter Seven – Shawel, Tabia. “‘Don’t Call It A Comeback’: Trump, Hip-Hop, and the Fight for Human Rights”

Chapter Eight – Akinyela, Ife Jie. “Movement Music Revisited: Conscious Rap and Contemporary Political Activism”

Section Three: Education and Social Justice: Getting an Education in “They Schools”
Chapter Nine – Sajnani, Damon. “Problematizing the Civil Rights Paradigm of Hip-Hop Studies”

Chapter Ten – Evans, Jabari. “‘It’s​ Bigger​ ​than​ ​Hip-Hop’:​ ​The​​Socio-Emotional​ ​Effect​ ​of​ Hip-Hop as Creative Music Making within the Formal Classroom” ​

Chapter Eleven – Harrison, Anthony Kwame. “Hip-Hop's Place in Campus Inclusion and Social Justice”

Section Four: Gender, Identity, and Sexuality in Hip-Hop
Chapter Twelve – Ali, Khalilah. “That’s Them Hoes Over There: Female Students Mitigating Hip-Hop Social Identity Threats”

Chapter Thirteen – Anderson, Britta L. “Public Grief and Collective Joy: Feminicide, Solidarity, and Feminist Rap in Ciudad Juárez”

Chapter Fourteen – Lamar, Alba Isabel. “Atrevidas: Afro-Cuban Women Demand Equity through Rap”

Section 5: Mixing It Up: Hip-Hoppers and Social Justice Around the World
Chapter Fifteen – Cheuk, Michael Ka Chi. “The Low Mays and the Transgression of Wo Lei Fei Fei”

Chapter Sixteen – Gill, Lisa M. “Watch the Throne: Representations of Blackness in Western Political Expressions”

Chapter Seventeen – Pimenta-Silva, Miguel. “Rhymes, Beats and Maize: The Maya Civilization and the Use of Rap”

Chapter Eighteen – Ouassini, Anwar and Mostafa Amini, M.A. “Native Transnational ‘Flows’: Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and the Construction of a Global Indigenous Identity”

Outro: “The Beautiful Struggle”

For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social injustices, and then zoom in on artists whose work has accomplished these ends. The volume explores topics including education and pedagogy; the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration; electoral politics; gender and sexuality; and the global struggle for social justice. Ultimately, the book argues that Hip-Hop is much more than a musical genre or cultural form: Hip-Hop is a resistance mechanism.