Prep

• • Review Usama Kahf, ‘Arabic Hip-Hop: Claims of Authenticity and Identity of a New Genre’, in Forman and Neal (2012)
  • Read Paul Gilroy, ‘It’s a Family Affair’, in Neal and Forman (2012)

Zoom Session

• Essentialism Revisited
• Guests in the House of Hip-Hop: Eminem Revisited
• Keywords: authenticity; black nationalism; 
• Midterm Take-Home Exam

For Next Time

• Christina Verán, with Darryl “DLT” Thompson, Litefoot, Grant Leigh Saunders, Mohammed Yunus Rafiq, and Jaas, ‘Native Tongues: A Roundtable on Hip-Hop’s Global Indigenous Movement’, in Forman and Neal (2012)