Date of Award
5-12-2017
Degree Type
Capstone Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies (BA)
Department
Cultural Studies
First Advisor
Douglas Reichert Powell
Second Advisor
Robert E. Watkins
Third Advisor
Kenneth Daley
Abstract
This project will examine the change in representations of blackness and black character in commercially successful hip hop music through music videos directed by Hype Williams from 1995 to 2005. This research will use a womanist approach to address the significant historical influence of storytelling in the black narrative and how the emerging concepts of hypermasculinity and the degradation of the black body have seemingly become the new normal. These concepts largely contribute to the negative stereotypical perceptions of black identity that keeps black bodies marginalized because there is little diversity in the public representations of blackness while there exists an abundance of black representation.
Recommended Citation
Milligan, Akira, "Who Benefits from Blackness? The White Compulsion for Capital" (2017). Cultural Studies Capstone Papers. 18.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cultural_studies/18
Included in
Broadcast and Video Studies Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Cultural History Commons, Film and Media Studies Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Music Performance Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social Influence and Political Communication Commons