Hip Hop & the Global South

Catalog description

Once a localized activity designed to provide a refuge for Black and Latino youth in places like New York City, Hip-Hop became a global brand that impacted youth's cultural, political, and economic realities across the world. This course focuses on hip hop in the Global South in places like Brazil, Cuba and Puerto Rico. We aim to deconstruct stereotypes and propose a more in-depth view of hip-hop in everyday life and in identity politics. Through scholarship and analysis of popular culture this course investigates the role gender, class, and race performs in the use of hip-hop as a tool for social change while simultaneously acting as a corporate marketing device.