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| Introduction : hip-hop is more than just music to me : the potential for a movement in the culture | 3 | |
| 1 | Bringing wreck : theorizing race, rap, gender, and the public sphere | 15 |
| 2 | My cipher keeps movin' like a rollin' stone : black women's expressive cultures and black feminist legacies | 41 |
| 3 | I bring wreck to those who disrespect me like a dame : women, rap, and the rhetoric of wreck | 75 |
| 4 | (Re)reconstructing womanhood : black women's narratives in hip-hop culture | 103 |
| 5 | Girls in the hood and other ghetto dramas : representing black womanhood in hip-hop cinema and novels | 127 |
| 6 | Hip-hop soul mate? : hip-hop soul divas and rap music : critiquing the love that hate produced | 163 |
| 7 | You can't see me/you betta recognize : using rap to bridge gaps in the classroom | 193 |
| Conclusion : imagining images : black womanhood in the twenty-first century | 215 |
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Josh Pearson
reviewed Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere on October 10, 2009
Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere
I give Gwen Pough 5 stars as a thinker and feminist. I would love to take a class led by her.
I disagreed with very little and felt I learned a lot from this text, but I wish there was more examination of the female rappers and emcees she seems to champion. Queen Latifah is referred to often, but I was expecting to learn about more hip-hop artists and wreck-ers. I was surprised that over-sexed performers like Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown were given just as much space (or in some cases more) than artists like M.C. Lyte, Salt 'N' Pepa, Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige, Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu. I wanted Pough to dissect more of the songs and raps and see the kinds of rhetorical moves they were/are making; instead, she spends more time analyzing the raps of men (like Method Man or Biggie Smalls). She also doesn't explore what's happened to women in hip hop culture today--where are all the women today?
The book certainly provides ton of food for thought, and her overarching goals are perfectly noble. My expectations were just a bit too high, I guess. (On a side note: Reading the book got me pulling out my hip-hop CDs that I haven't listened to in awhile, and that has been a lot of fun.)
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