My Next Read: “The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era” by Bryan J. McCann

In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era’s worst racial stereotypes. Rather, he positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely […]

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