Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
We watched the beginning of the film this morning. Before this, we shared thesis sentences developed from the topics: machismo, sexism, homophobia, violence, misogyny. Some of the writing was outstanding like Mathew's elegant sentence on masculinity, Derek's complex statement about sexism, and Tariq's thesis on machismo. Everyone please post your thesis sentences here.
Visit the website for background information on the film: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/
You will be responding to the film in an essay, due for peer review, Monday, Sept. 22. The final draft is due Wednesday, Sept. 24. You will be posting the essay at the prompt I will set up for you next week.
I will put the assignment here, FYI. I have students who saw this film last fall; you can critique the Dyson/Hurt interview. Have a dialogue with them on paper. I also want students to pull in examples from the lyrical content of the songs and lives of the artists.
Each student should chose a focus: sexism, homophobia, violence, misogyny, masculinity, media literacy, develop a thesis and go from there. You are either agreeing or disagreeing with Hurt (and Dyson).
We watched the beginning of the film this morning. Before this, we shared thesis sentences developed from the topics: machismo, sexism, homophobia, violence, misogyny. Some of the writing was outstanding like Mathew's elegant sentence on masculinity, Derek's complex statement about sexism, and Tariq's thesis on machismo. Everyone please post your thesis sentences here.
Visit the website for background information on the film: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/
You will be responding to the film in an essay, due for peer review, Monday, Sept. 22. The final draft is due Wednesday, Sept. 24. You will be posting the essay at the prompt I will set up for you next week.
I will put the assignment here, FYI. I have students who saw this film last fall; you can critique the Dyson/Hurt interview. Have a dialogue with them on paper. I also want students to pull in examples from the lyrical content of the songs and lives of the artists.
Each student should chose a focus: sexism, homophobia, violence, misogyny, masculinity, media literacy, develop a thesis and go from there. You are either agreeing or disagreeing with Hurt (and Dyson).
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 2:57 PM
7 Comments:
1. Violence, machismo, sexism, and homophobia all have a major impact on the negative views of young men in the hip-hop society.
2. For young men in the hip-hop community, their macho persona is really an underlying insecurity within themselves.
3. Violence is an outward display of the machismo in which young men in the hip-hop community live in accordance to.
Ashley Dorsett
Well i saw the film last year and i enjoyed it very much i can never get enough of watching it. I agree that homophobia and sexism plays a major part of the violence and negative views of young men.
1. Because of the machismo,sexism, and homophobia that has been integrated into hip-hop today, hip-hop has taken on a whole new meaning.
2. Violence and sexism is the backbone of hip-hop today.
3. Hypermasculinity can be in question of ones true identity.
Caprice Eddington
Khalid arghandiwal
engl 1a
3 thesis sentences
1. violence, sexism, and homophobia are is today's backbone in the hip hop world.
2. violence is stereotyping toward other people of other race.
3. violence, sexism is a person's worst enemy.
Ammnah Babikir
1. Sex/Vilence and machismo is an outward display of young men's insecurities in hip hop culture.
2. Violence is the only way that most rappers in the hip hop industry feel that they could make adifference.
3. Violence and sexism is mainstream hiphop.
1. Machismo, violence and homophobia are misconceptions about group of people being inferior or superior to another group of people based on gender (sexism), agressive hypermasculinity (machismo) or sexual orientation (homophobia).
2. Machismo, violence, sexism and homophobia are various terms which basically represent some form of fear, hate or ignorance.
3. Machismo in hip-hop culture is prevalent and at times compromises the entire legitimacy of the genre.
Chesi Brown
English 1A
I feel that homophobia and sexism plays a major part of the violence and has a negative impact on men today.Sexism is now becoming the main source of the hip-hop culture and in the industry eyes, the only way our community is going to be furtunite. All these behavior show is young men's insecurities in hip hop culture.
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