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Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

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Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness - Pinn, Anthony B
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"Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks including Afropessimism and Black Moralism, Deathlife uses Hip Hop to explore the ways in which Blackness serves as a framework defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Anthony B. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the ability to distinguish death and life-to bracket off death for the sake of life. And this ability is produced and safeguarded through the construction of Blackness as death. Over against ...

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Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness 2024, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9781478025412

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Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness 2024, Duke University Press

ISBN-13: 9781478020608

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