Tuesday, Nov. 25

Topics: Globalization of hip-hop, the politics of resistance and co-option

Read:

• Robin D.G. Kelley. “Forward,” from The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, Basu and Lemelle (eds). 2006. [DOWNLOAD]
• Jeff Chang. “It’s a Hip-Hop World,” Foreign Policy, October 11, 2007. [DOWNLOAD]
• Hishaam Adi, “Leveraging Hip Hop in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Al Jazeera, November 7, 2011.

Thursday, Nov. 27

NO CLASS

Video watched in class: