@article{1480329,
      recid = {1480329},
      author = {Cheney, Charise, },
      title = {Brothers Gonna Work It Out : Sexual Politics in the Golden  Age of Rap Nationalism /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political  expression of rap artists within the historical tradition  of black nationalism. Interweaving songs and personal  interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including  Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Rosa Clemente, manager of  dead prez, and Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers,  Cheney links late twentieth-century hip-hop nationalists  with their nineteenth-century spiritual forebears.Cheney  examines Black nationalism as an ideology historically  inspired by a crisis of masculinity. Challenging simplistic  notions of hip-hop culture as simply sexist or  misogynistic, she pays particular attention to Black  nationalists' historicizing of slavery and their  visualization of male empowerment through violent  resistance. She charts the recent rejection of Christianity  in the lyrics of rap nationalist music due to the  perception that it is too conciliatory, and the increasing  popularity of Black Muslim rap artists.Cheney situates rap  nationalism in the 1980s and 90s within a long tradition of  Black nationalist political thought which extends beyond  its more obvious influences in the mid-to-late twentieth  century like the Nation of Islam or the Black Power  Movement, and demonstrates its power as a voice for  disenfranchised and disillusioned youth all over the  world.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480329},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790441.001.0001},
}