{"product_id":"hiphop-as-philosophical-text-and-testimony-9781498566704","title":"HipHop as Philosophical Text and Testimony","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHip-hop as survivor testimony? Rhymes as critical text? Drawing on her own experiences as a lifelong hip-hop head and a philosophy professor, Dr. Lissa Skitolsky reveals the existential power of hip-hop to affect our sensibility and understanding of race and anti-black racism. In each chapterkeenly titled with a notable hip-hop phraseshe examines how the academic exclusion of hip-hop from discourses around knowledge, racism, white supremacy, genocide, white nationalism and trauma reflect the very neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes. At this critical moment in history, in the midst of a long- overdue global reckoning with systemic anti-black racism, Skitolsky shows how it is more important than ever for white people to realize that our failure to see this systemand take hip-hop seriouslyhas been essential to its reproduction. In this effort she illustrates the unique power of underground hip-hop to interrupt our neoliberal and post-racial sensibility of current ev\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: It’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Know What I’m Sayin?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Can I Get a Witness?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Claimin I’m a Criminal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: But You Don’t Hear Me Tho\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: You Feel Me?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Fuck Tha Police\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Aesthetic Politics of Underground Hip-Hop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaylist by Chapter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040796672343,"sku":"9781498566704","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hiphop-as-philosophical-text-and-testimony-9781498566704","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}