What is it about?
Through a hip hop feminist lens, how are we to interpret black girls’ and women’s self-identification in digital spaces that visibly resonate with new/remixed images? And more importantly, what happens when black female rap artists and their fan base disrupt, subvert or challenge dominant gender scripts in hip hop in order to navigate broader discourses on black female sexuality?
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Why is it important?
Using an interdisciplinary approach grounded in black feminism and hip hop feminism, this essay offers a theoretical approach to a digital hip hop feminist sensibility (DHHFS). Too little has been said about black women’s representation in digital spaces where they imagine alternative gender performance, disrupt hegemonic tropes, and engage in participatory culture.
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This article is for women in hip-hop and Black girls who reject respectability politics and are brave enough to $%* with the grays. Through this article, I hope readers develop a more nuanced understanding of Black women and avoid placing limited binary tropes onto us.
Kyesha Jennings
North Carolina State University
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This page is a summary of: City Girls, hot girls and the re-imagining of Black women in hip hop and digital spaces, Global Hip Hop Studies, June 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/ghhs_00004_1.
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