... 's essay deals with the idea that a book or story can talk to its reader. Different books will talk in different voices, and books that have fallen into the African American genre speak "a distinctively African voice". This "voice" will do many things, not the least of which is "demonstrate that people of African descent possessed the requisite degrees of reason and whit ... readers, shows the very rational and sentience that Gates was referring to. In addition to African American Literature testifying to the intellect of African Americans, Gates also asserts that the genre "at once test...

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... a silly song with a catchy melody. This goes for hip hop music as well. Most of us don't take the explicit sexism in Hip Hop personally because we know it doesn't define us. Jennifer McLune on the other hand disagrees with this nonchalant attitude completely. In "Celie's Revenge: Hip-Hop's Betrayal of Black Women," published in Said it magazine, Jennifer ... she is talking about. On the other hand, the comments McLune makes pertaining to Jay-Z are meaningless because she fails to establish credibility to offer an opinion of this music genre. This lack of credibility makes it appear as i...

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... life. The culture industry's cycle causes hip-hop to act upon historically negative racial perceptions and reinforces them by only allowing this one-dimensional version of hip hop music to define the genre as a whole. This causes those exposed to hip-hop to project the negative characteristics of one-dimensional hip-hop onto the Black community and its individuals. Contrary to narrow ... industry, they need to adapt to the interests of the record labels, the representations of culture industry, and the historical racial expectations of Whites. "Record label executives began to define th...

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... I go by whatever we practice and try our absolute best to live by the rules of the book. When it comes to music; I listen to whatever I like. Doesn't matter the genre, title or artist. If I like it, I'm downloading it onto my IPod and listening to everything thing I like on shuffle. My culture is stereotyped to only relate to gospel and rap ... it any better. I believe that no matter what the media shows about a culture, you should never judge yourself or a person outside of your culture based on stereotypes. Stereotypes do not define you or anybody else. Get to know somebody from a dif...

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• Grade Level: High School