The Reconstruction Chapter Of Rap

Music and society have always been closely related. For years now music has been apart of people’s everyday lives all around the world. Having so many different genres out there, it makes it easy to be appealing to so many different ethnic backgrounds. However, one type of genre in particular has seemed to grab the attention of a younger generation. Rap music has undoubtedly had its utmost impact on African American youth, since many of the performers themselves are African American. An overtly masculine culture dominates rap music and creates gender stereotypes that become abundantly popular to the youthful audience. Three constant themes that are found within the rap culture are encouragement of violence, the misogynistic representation of women, an extreme hatred of homophobia. Each theme plays a detrimental role in the process of defining black masculinity as well as shaping the values, morals, and beliefs that its younger audience adopts after tuning into this “gangster lifestyle”.

3. Imagine that you are a young African American living in a northern city in the 1920s. From that perspective, answer the following questions. (6 points)

As a result, segregation gradually spread. By the mid-1890s railroad cars and other forms of public transportation had become segregated in a number of southern states.

1. Keyes points out that rap music derives from what she refers to as the “West African bardic tradition.” What is this tradition? What is the role of the griot in this tradition? What parallels do you see between the groit and a hip hop MC (the rapper, often the main writer of lyrics for a group)?

Rap music has become one of the most distinctive and controversial music genres of the past few decades. A major part of hip hop culture, rap, discusses the experiences and standards of living of people in different situations ranging from racial stereotyping to struggle for survival in poor, violent conditions. Rap music is a vocal protest for the people oppressed by these things. Most people know that rap is not only music to dance and party to, but a significant form of expression. It is a source of information that describes the rage of people facing growing oppression, declining opportunities for advancement, changing moods on the streets, and everyday survival. Its distinct sound, images, and attitude are notorious to people of all

How did black families, churches, schools, and other institutions contribute to the development of African American culture and political activism in this period?

Final Exam: Between the beginning of World War II and the present decade, the United States underwent significant reform through key legislative acts, which addressed race relations, poverty, and gender. Explain these different categories of reform, their early proponents, their evolution into legislation, and whether or not this legislation truly addressed the issues.

2. A) Describe “Black Codes” in the South, and how Republicans did away with the codes.

D). Because of the Jim Crow Laws, African Americans were not able to go to school with white kids, so they needed their own school. Reconstruction was a success because the Freedmen's Bureau helped educate many African Americans. The Freedmen’s Bureau was successful because they helped educate African Americans. During slavery, African Americans did not know how to read or write, so it was a big step. Education also helped them get good jobs, and good jobs led to good pay, which then led to a better life. Therefore, educating African Americans was a success. Finally, the reconstruction era was a success because black people were becoming congressmen. This is important because they are becoming more equal to whites. Another reason reconstruction is a success because black people were becoming congressmen (Doc. I). In Document I, it is a picture of 6 black people with important roles in the government. 5 of them are U.S. Representatives, and one is the Senator from Mississippi. These are important pictures because they are finally getting important jobs. This is a big step for them because before, they weren’t regarded as people, nevertheless as a Senator. This all occurred during the 1870-1870 time period. In total there were 17 African Americans elected to government

9. Discuss the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation, both during and after the Civil War. Discuss reasons why Lincoln issued it when he did, and what was the impact on African Americans?

3) In what ways did Charles Hamilton Houston and W.E.B. DuBois differ in their approaches to school integration? Why? [Optional: Who do you think was right and why? You may use extra lines if you would like to respond.]

2. "How have your ideas about African-American history in particular and history in general been shaped by the contexts in which you encountered these histories?"

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Assess the appropriateness of each of these strategies in the historical context in which each was developed.

The very slave- holding society that the South emerged from made it more able to accept African Americans living among whites. However, this was not true in all the classes. Many lower class and rural southern whites viewed the newly freed African Americans much more harshly than their wealthier counterparts. In regard to sharing a railroad car, one white man stated that he would rather be seated next to a respectable African American rather than a rowdy, lower- class white man.

With things, such as explicit lyrics and depiction of women, drugs, and violence an assumption can be made that gangster rap represents a masculinity that rappers portray themselves as in their songs. Dating back to its origins, African Americans had always been the face of gangster rap, with such names like Tupac, Biggie, Jay-Z, DMX, and much more, as covers of rap magazines. Gangster rap had always been seen as what people interpret it to be and that is a raw rhythmic and explicit version of poetry in motion, but gangster rap depicts more than what people interpret it to be. Gangster rap depicts the image of how a strong African American male should look like, a bold, angry, rebellious, and fierce man. Strong African American males are subjective to gangster rap, mainly because of how gangster rap portrays masculinity. In “Brotherly Love: Homosociality and Black Masculinity in Gangsta Rap Muscic” Oware argues that although gangster rap music portrays the masculinity of African American males through the use of hyper masculinity, misogyny, and violence in lyrics, gangster rap music also provides a way for rappers to express themselves to commemorate their fellow friends through lyrics that depict family/friend relationships, success by association, and have a tribute for lost friends.