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Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony

Can I Get a Witness?
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Hip-hop as survivor testimony? Rhymes as critical text? Drawing on her own experiences as a lifelong hip-hop head and a philosophy professor, Dr. Lissa Skitolsky reveals the existential power of hip-hop to affect our sensibility and understanding of race and anti-black racism. In each chapter-keenly titled with a notable hip-hop phrase-she examines how the academic exclusion of hip-hop from discourses around knowledge, racism, white supremacy, genocide, white nationalism and trauma reflect the very neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes. At this critical moment in history, in the midst of a long- overdue global reckoning with systemic anti-black racism, Skitolsky shows how it is more important than ever for white people to realize that our failure to see this system-and take hip-hop seriously-has been essential to its reproduction. In this effort she illustrates the unique power of underground hip-hop to interrupt our neoliberal and post-racial sensibility of current events.
Introduction: It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop Chapter One: Know What I'm Sayin? Chapter Two: Can I Get a Witness? Chapter Three: Claimin I'm a Criminal Chapter Four: But You Don't Hear Me Tho Chapter Five: You Feel Me? Chapter Six: Fuck Tha Police Conclusion: The Aesthetic Politics of Underground Hip-Hop Playlist by Chapter Discography
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