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PROGRAMS
About the Program
Exhibits
Education
Film Series
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"I
see it in the youth, hungry for fame and money
Not for knowledge and pursuit of the truth
Pick up a book or a newspaper
Take a free class in politics or human behavior
We need to stop actin victimized, it's like we're day-walkin blind
Open your eyes, there's a whole world out there"
Jean Grae, MC
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Can't
Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
by Jeff Chang (St. Martin's Press, 2005)
**Winner of the 2005 American Book Award***
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Stand
and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture
by Yvonne Bynoe (Soft Skull Press, 2004)
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No
More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the
Cool Rich Kids Movement, A Hitchhiker's Guide to Community Organizing,
and Why Philanthropy is the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century
by William Upski Wimsatt (Soft Skull Press, 1998)
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The
New H.N.I.C. (Head Niggas in Charge): The Death of Civil Rights
and the Reign of Hip Hop by Todd Boyd (New York University
Press, 2003)
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How
to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: The Anti-Politics, Un-Boring
Guide to Power by William Upski Wimsatt (Soft Skull
Press, 2003)
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All
the Power : Revolution Without Illusion by Mark Andersen
(Punk Planet Books, 2004)
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"You
would rather have a Lexus? Or justice?
A Dream? Or some substance?
A Beamer? A necklace? Or Freedom?" Stic.man, MC (Dead Prez)
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""People
treat Hip Hop like an isolated phenomenon. They don't treat it as
a continuum, a history or legacy. And it really is. And like all mediums
or movements, it came out of a need." Mos Def, MC, actor
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Ammo
for the Info Warrior (2002), produced by GNN: Guerilla
News Network
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Hip
Hop: A Culture of Influence (1999), produced by Educational
Video Center and Youth Organizers Television
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"This
is rebellion music, not gangsta music." KRS-One, MC, activist
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Adrienne
Maree Brown
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Saul
Williams interviewed by Jeff Chang
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Yvonne
Bynoe
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Rep.
Barbara Lee interviewed by Davey D
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Mos
Def
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Harry
Allen (audio)
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"There
are certain clear economic disadvantages that are the direct result
of the American apartheid system. If we don't address that, it's going
to continue to prey on a large segment of society and support the
belief that people harbor about cultural inferiority."
Sarah Jones, writer, actor
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RESOURCES
Hip-Hop in a Global Context
Hip-Hop,
Activism, and Social Change
Hip-Hop,
Gender, and Sexuality
Graffiti:
Free Expression, Public Space, and the Commons
Change
Methods' Playlist: Global Hip-Hop
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PROGRAMS
Hip-Hop, Arts, and Activism: What's the
Connection?
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