Atelier@Duke: Media & Politics; Culture & Identity

Atelier@Duke: Media & Politics; Culture & Identity
February 25, 2011

Panelists at the Atelier@Duke symposium discuss "Media and Politics, Culture and Identity," the final panel at the Atelier@Duke, an event marking the 15th anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Research Center at Duke University Libraries.

Panelists include Nia-Malika Henderson (The Washington Post), Susannah Meadows (Newsweek), Linda Williams (Raleigh News & Observer), Orin Starn (Duke), and moderator Mark Anthony Neal (Duke).

Arab Hip-Hop and Revolution

from Democracy Now

Arab Hip-Hop and Revolution:
The Narcicyst on Music, Politics, and the Art of Resistance

Yassin Salman AKA Hip-Hop Artist "The Narcicyst", sits down with Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Koudous.

Race, Rage, and Reconciliation

from Pop & Politics

Race, Rage, and Reconciliation
Pop & Politics Radio Special

Farai Chideya and team go to Florida to talk about the ways the American Dream is colliding with reality, and what it means in the voting booth. Chideya speaks with Colonel Allen West, a black Tea Party candidate; residents of a historic black community, where the land has been contaminated by industrial toxins, who say business and politicians have abandoned them; Muslim-Americans in Gainesville; and victors and victims of the foreclosure crisis.

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Classic "New Jack" Analysis from Barry Michael Cooper

from The Huffington Post

When Politics Became The New Hip Hop
By Barry Michael Cooper

The Gen-Y'ers have truly made the connection between Barack Obama and Hip Hop. They are his advance team on Facebook, My Space, and Friendster, an army of Millennials that has assisted the Obama campaign in raising hundreds of millions of dollars online. For this new paradigm--young white kids (and Asian, Latino, African-American, and multi-racial kids, too)--the culture of Hip Hop allowed them to embrace a black man without fear, suspicion, or loathing. These same Gen-Y'ers will go to a Jay-Z concert and know all the words to "Regrets" or "Lost Ones." Michael Phelps motored Beijing's Olympic blue cube -- stoked by the fires of Lil' Wayne lyrics playing in his head -- en route to a record eight gold medals. These same Millennials are also educating their parents around the breakfast and dinner table, letting them know that the Baby Boomer version of the American Dream, the Woodstock, flower power, peace, love, and Haight-Ashbury, has grown up in Eminem's 8 Mile of Detroit, Snoop Dogg's Long Beach, and Common's South Side of Chicago. Their world may not be a ghetto, but the Millennials have broadbanded it into their very own 3-G global 'hood. Which, incidentally, is Obama's hood, too.

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