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Put Your Hands Up: Hip-hop, Incarceration, and the Fate of the Black Male pt 4

on March 24, 2016March 24, 2016 By cue4christ

As much as the prison complex and the rap industry affect the livelihood of black males in society, they also affect the way in which black males are seen in this society. Again, the understanding of how a criminal label can affect how you are seen is fairly simple, but the role of the commercial [...]

Put Your Hands Up: Hip-hop, Incarceration, and the Fate of the Black Male pt1

on March 3, 2016March 3, 2016 By cue4christ 2 Comments

This post is part 1 of a paper I wrote about the correlation between the rise of mass incarceration in America and the rise of thug culture glorified within commercial rap music.