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- Title
Socially Grounded Ontology and Epistemological Agency: James G. Spady's Search for the Marvelous/Imaginative Within the Expansive and Expressive Domain of Rap Music and Hip Hop Self-Consciousness.
- Authors
YANCY, GEORGE
- Abstract
The article discusses the scholar and cultural theorist James G. Spady's perspective on rap music and hip hop culture, including their respective self-consciousnesses. An overview of Spady's use of social ontology and epistemological agency to understand black culture is provided. The social aspects of black bodies, including in regard to the putative criminalization of African Americans, are discussed.
- Subjects
SPADY, James G.; RAP music &; society; ONTOLOGY -- Social aspects; THEORY of knowledge; AGENT (Philosophy); HUMAN body &; society; SELF-consciousness (Awareness); AFRICAN American social life &; customs
- Publication
Western Journal of Black Studies, 2013, Vol 37, Issue 2, p66
- ISSN
0197-4327
- Publication type
Article