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Pimps Up, Ho's Down T. Denean Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Pimps Up, Ho's Down By T. Denean Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Pimps Up, Ho's Down by T. Denean Denean Sharpley-Whiting


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Looks at the issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. This book questions the complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying.

Pimps Up, Ho's Down Summary

Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Untangles the intricately knotted issues around hip-hop culture and its treatment of young black women
Pimps Up, Ho's Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, interrogates the complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying.
Beyond their portrayal in rap lyrics, the display of black women in music videos, television, film, fashion, and on the Internet is indispensable to the mass media engineered appeal of hip hop culture, the author argues. And the commercial trafficking in the images and behaviors associated with hip hop has made them appear normal, acceptable, and entertaining - both in the U.S. and around the world.
Sharpley-Whiting questions the impacts of hip hop's increasing alliance with the sex industry, the rise of groupie culture in the hip hop world, the impact of hip hop's compulsory heterosexual culture on young black women, and the permeation of the hip hop ethos into young black women's conceptions of love and romance.
The author knows her subject from the inside. Coming of age in the midst of hip hop's evolution in the late 1980s, she mixed her graduate studies with work as a runway and print model in the 1990s. Her book features interviews with exotic dancers, black hip hop groupies, and hip hop generation members Jacklyn Diva Bush, rapper Trina, and filmmaker Aishah Simmons, along with the voices of many everyday young women.
Pimps Up, Ho's Down turns down the volume and amplifies the substance of discussions about hip hop culture and to provide a space for young black women to be heard.
2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth Award

Pimps Up, Ho's Down Reviews

Pimps Up, Ho's Downis an ambitious project that engages, rather than skirts, the complicated domain of sex, gender, power and hip hop. The book is extremely readable and suitiable for a variety of audiences. -- Valerie Chepp * Cultural Sociology *
Sharpley-Whitings book does not suffer from the sort of cowardice one too often hears from black academics who genuflect to hip hop in order to stay current with the tastes of the students who provide them with whatever power they have on college campuses. Sharpley-Whiting calls them as she sees them and wisely quotes the offensive material when necessary. Her book is high level in its research and its thought, and those looking for adult ideas about the subject should look it up. -- Stanley Crouch * New York Daily News *
Offers an insightful look into the strip clubs, groupie culture, and other aspects of hip hop that have given a voice to the disenfranchised while raising troubling questions about what those voices are saying and doing. * Vanderbilt Magazine *
Sharpley-Whiting gets at the heart of the paradox . . . and puts the discussion on the turntable. * Washington Post *
Offers damning evidence about hip hops underlying racial and social prejudices, examining the politics of gender and providing a feminists perspective and insights into black musics underlying message. * The Midwest Book Review *
Sharpley-Whiting unmasks thought provoking socio-political commentaries concerning sexual obsession in rap music and its effects on the black female sense of self. * Allhiphop.com *
Sharpley-Whitings uncommon perspective is one that deserves to be examined more often. * Bitch *

About T. Denean Denean Sharpley-Whiting

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and French at Vanderbilt University, where she also directs the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and serves as Director of the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies. Author of four books, she was described by cultural critic and scholar Michael Eric Dyson as a rising superstar among black intellectuals and one of the country's most brilliant and prolific racial theorists in the Chicago Sun-Times in 2002. She has also co-edited three volumes, including The Black Feminist Reader.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Prologue Sex, Power, and Punanny Introduction Pimpin' Ain't Easy, But Somebody's Got to Do It 1 I See the Same Ho: Video Vixens, Beauty Culture, and Diasporic Sex Tourism 2 Too Hot to Be Bothered: Black Women and Sexual Abuse 3 I'm a Hustla, Baby: Groupie Love and the Hip Hop Star 4 Strip Tails: Booty Clappin', P-poppin', Shake Dancing 5 Coda, or a Few Last Words on Hip Hop and Feminism Notes Index About the Author

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GOR007064672
9780814740149
0814740146
Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women by T. Denean Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Used - Very Good
Hardback
New York University Press
20070301
200
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