11/11 Happy Corduroy Day!
Prep
- Mychal Denzel Smith, ‘Confessions of a Conscious Rap Fan’, Pitchfork (28 June 2022)
- Audio: ‘Kendrick Lamar’s Anxiety Era’, Popcast (24 May 2022)
- Video: ‘Do the Knowledge’, Hip-Hop Evolution S2E3 (2018). This is optional, since some folks might not have Netflix.
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: If hip-hop is protest music, why is there so much gaybashing?
- Reading Notes for Next Time
- Davarian Baldwin, ‘Black Empires, White Desires: The Spatial Politics of Identity in the Age of Hip-Hop’, (password-protected PDF) in Forman and Neal (2012)
