Tracy Sharpley-Whiting: Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women
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Posted by Web Team, July 19, 2007
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Thursday, September 20 @ 7:00pm in the Linda K. Paresky Conference Center.
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, interrogates the complexities of young black women’s engagement with a culture that is masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying.
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