From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
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From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism is the title of a non-fiction
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 book written by Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins
Patricia Hill Collins, is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, former head of the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati and past President of the American Sociological Association Council...

. Published in 2006 by Temple University Press, the book analyzes issues as diverse as family planning, Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism
Afrocentrism is cultural ideology mostly limited to the United States, dedicated to the history of Black people a response to global racist attitudes about African people and their historical contributions by revisiting this history with an African cultural and ideological center...

, and the role of African-American women in the hip-hop movement.

The book is divided into three parts:
  1. Race, Family, and the US nation-state
  2. Ethnicity, Culture, and Black Nationalist
    Black nationalism
    Black nationalism advocates a racial definition of indigenous national identity, as opposed to multiculturalism. There are different indigenous nationalist philosophies but the principles of all African nationalist ideologies are unity, and self-determination or independence from European society...

     politics
  3. Feminism, Nationalism, and African-American Women.


Each section has two long essays with the fifth essay totalling thirty-eight pages.

List of Essays

  • Like One of the Family: Race, Ethnicity, and the Paradox of American National Identity (section 1)
  • Will the "Real" Mother Please Stand Up? Race, Class, and American National Family Planning (section 1)
  • Black Nationalism and African American Ethnicity: Afrocentrism as Civil Religion (section 2)
  • When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism (section 2)
  • Why Collective Identity Politics Matter: Feminism, Nationalism, and Black Women's Community Work (section 3)
  • Is the Personal Still Political? The Women's Movement, Feminism, and Black Women in the Hip-Hip Generation

See also

  • Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
    Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
    Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins is a work of critical theory that discusses the way that race, class and gender intersect to affect the lives of African American men and women in many different ways, but with similar results...

  • Misogyny in hip hop culture
    Misogyny in hip hop culture
    Misogyny in hip hop culture refers to lyrics, videos or other aspects of hip hop culture that support, glorify, justify, or normalize the objectification, exploitation, or victimization of women. Misogyny in rap music instills and perpetuates negative stereotypes about women. It can range from...

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