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How Media Perpetuate Racism

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… community, and particularly to Simone. The song “Strange Fruit” had been written by Abel Meeropol, a Jew who had gone to school with james baldwin in his youth (Blair). A picture of a black man who had been lynched in the Deep South had inspired Meeropol to write ……

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Works Cited

Adorno, Theodor and M. Horkheimer. The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. Stardom and celebrity: A reader, 34, 2007.

Aldrige, Derick. “From Civil Rights to Hip Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” http://www.thehiphopproject.org/site/pdfs/hhp_civilRights.pdf

Blair, Elizabeth. “The Strange Story of the Man behind Strange Fruit.” NPR.  http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/158933012/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit 

Cashmore, Ellis. The Black culture industry. Routledge, 2006.

Collins, Patricia Hill. "New commodities, new consumers: Selling blackness in a global marketplace." Ethnicities 6.3 (2006): 297-317.

Davis, Angela. The Meaning of Freedom. San Francisco, CA: City Light Books, 2012.

Guy, Talmadge C. "Gangsta rap and adult education." New directions for adult and continuing education 2004.101 (2004): 43-57.

Heaggans, Raphael C. "When the oppressed becomes the oppressor: Willie Lynch and the politics of race and racism in hip-hop music." West Virginia University Philological Papers 50 (2003): 77-81.

 

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