The Center for Black Diaspora Presents
“My Passport Says Shawn: Trafficking in Monikers”
Mark Anthony Neal, Ph.D.
African and African American Studies,
Duke University
Thursday, February 8, 2007
3:30-5:30pm
Richardson Library, Dorothy Day Room 400
2350 N. Sheffield Ave.
Using the example of hip-hop artist and mogul Jay Z (Shawn Carter), Dr. Mark Anthony Neal examines how hip-hop artists might construct hybrid identities as not only a strategy to circulate in the various commercial and cultural markets that cosmopolitanism affords, but as a means to negotiate and respond to the queering that occurs as individual artists challenge the essential nigga tropes, the performed masculinities preva-lent in contemporary commercial that hip-hop circulates.
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