Showing posts with label Planet Rock. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation

“There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”― Toni Morrison

  • How did viewing this documentary affirm, change, or complicate what you know or understand about African American Culture in the 1980s-1990s?
  • How did viewing this documentary affirm, change, or complicate what you know or understand about the intersections of Hip Hop Culture and African Americans?
  • How did viewing this documentary affirm, change, or complicate what you know or understand about the intersections of the prison industrial complex, public fear, and African Americans? Is there a connection to earlier notions of public fear?
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