Abstract
Hip-Hop was created by urban youth of color more than 30 years ago amid racial oppression and economic marginalization. It has moved beyond that specific community and embraced by young people worldwide, elevating it to a global youth culture. The ambitious and hard-hitting documentary Blacking Up: Hip-Hop’s Remix of Race and Identity looks at the popularity of hip-hop among America’s white youth. It asks whether white identification is rooted in admiration and a desire to transcend race or if it is merely a new chapter in the long continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and cultural appropriation? Does it reflect a new face of racial understanding in white America or does it reinforce an ugly history?
The film presents a diverse group of white rap fans (often referred to by derogatory terms such as “wannabe” or “wigger”) and performers with very different ways of expressing their relationship to Hip-Hop music and culture. Against the unique backdrop of American popular music, Blacking Up explores racial identity in U.S. society.
The film presents a diverse group of white rap fans (often referred to by derogatory terms such as “wannabe” or “wigger”) and performers with very different ways of expressing their relationship to Hip-Hop music and culture. Against the unique backdrop of American popular music, Blacking Up explores racial identity in U.S. society.
Collection
Subject
Rap (Music) -- Social aspects, Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- United States, Rap musicians -- United States, Music and race -- United States, Hip-hop -- United States -- Influence, Blacks -- Race identity -- United States, Whites -- Race identity -- United States, Youth, White -- Race identity -- United States
Contributors
Clift, Robert A. (director), Clift, Robert A. (writer), Clift, Robert A. (producer), Lavoll, Jørn (composer), Clift, Robert A. (editor), Leigh, Eliot (composer), Krahnke, Steve (executive producer), Fifer, Sally Jo (executive producer), Corporation for Public Broadcasting (producer), Limbic Productions, Inc. (producer), Independent Television Service (contributor)
Duration
00:56:54 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Target or Intended Audience
adult/continuing education, higher education, high school (grades 10-12), college
Copyright Holder
| Name | California Newsreel |
| Role | distributor |
| Telephone | 415-284-7800 |
| Address | 500 Third Street, Suite #505, San Francisco, CA 94107-1875 |
| [email protected] |
Copyright Date
2010-01-01
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