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Soul Thieves

The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture

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  • © 2014

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  1. Tamara Lizette Brown
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  2. Baruti N. Kopano
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Part of the book series: Contemporary Black History (CBH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Soul Thieves: White America and the Appropriation of Hip Hop and Black Culture

    • Baruti N. Kopano
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Appropriation of Blackness in Ego Trip’s The (White) Rapper Show

    • Carlos D. Morrison , Ronald L. Jackson II
    Pages 15-30

  4. Cash Rules Everything around Me: Appropriation, Commodification, and the Politics of Contemporary Protest Music and Hip Hop

    • Diarra Osei Robertson
    Pages 31-49

  5. I’m Hip: An Exploration of Rap Music’s Creative Guise

    • Kawachi Clemmons
    Pages 51-60

  6. Foraging Fashion: African American Influences on Cultural Aesthetics

    • Abena Lewis-Mhoon
    Pages 61-75

  7. In the Eye of the Beholder: Definitions of Beauty in Popular Black Magazines

    • Kimberly Brown
    Pages 77-90

  8. Neutering the Black Power Movement: The Hijacking of Protest Symbolism

    • James B. Stewart
    Pages 91-108

  9. A Silent Protest: The 1968 Olympiad and the Appropriation of Black Athletic Power

    • Jamal Ratchford
    Pages 109-149

  10. Imagining a Strange New World: Racial Integration and Social Justice Advocacy in Marvel Comics, 1966–1980

    • David Taft Terry
    Pages 151-199

  11. So You Think You Can Dance: Black Dance and American Popular Culture

    • Tamara Lizette Brown
    Pages 201-267

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 269-284
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Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.

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“Soul Thieves is a collection of essays that critically weighs the consequences of appropriating black culture. … The volume has broad appeal and informs academics how black material culture is conversant with many of the same discourses as conventional historical narratives. … Soul Thieves is a welcomed addition to interdisciplinary fields, African American studies in particular.” (Kameelah L. Martin, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 102 (3), December, 2015)

"This ground breaking interdisciplinary publication is long overdue and offers deep insight into the efficacy of African American popular culture and it's critical impact on shaping artistic cultural production on a global scale. The contributors, leading scholars in their respective research areas, set the record straight through their thought provoking and accessible historicalresearch." - Melanye White Dixon, Associate Professor, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University, USA

About the authors

Dr. Kimberly Brown, Alabama State University, USA Kawachi Clemons, Florida A & M University, USA Ronald L. Jackson, II, University of Cincinnati, USA Dr. Carlos D. Morrison, Alabama State University, USA Dr. Abena Lewis-Mhoon, Coppin State University, USA Jamal L. Ratchford, University of Indianapolis, USA Diarra Osei Robertson, Bowie State University, USA James B. Stewart, Penn State, USA David Taft Terry, Morgan State University, USA

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