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Hip Hop Women and Online Magazines

Analyzing the portrayal of women in online hip hop media, exploring themes of race, gender, and sexuality. Examines VIBE magazine's impact on youth audiences and the intersection of hip hop culture with digital platforms.

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Hip Hop Women and Online Magazines

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  1. Hip Hop Women and Online Magazines Donyell L. Roseboro University of North Carolina Wilmington Presentation at the Mind the Gap International Conference on Youth Work and Youth Studies September 8, 2010

  2. Overview • Digitizing Identity (Nakamura, 2008) • VIBE magazine online presents images of hypersexualized women of color. • Female hip hop artists send corollary textual messages that suggest that they purposefully and selectively use sex

  3. Introduction: My positionality

  4. Historical background Hip Hop The Internet VIBE Magazine

  5. Theoretical Musings • Identity (Anzaldua, 1987; Collins, 2000; DuBois, 1903; Wing, 1997) • Black Migration (Dodson, & Diouf, 2005; Lemann,1992) • Youth & Hip Hop (Asante, 2008; Collins, 2006, Neal, 2002, & Rose, 2008)

  6. Theoretical Musings & Black Folks • The Illusiveness of Space: Migration and Displacement in the Cyber-universe • Black people are a people who have moved and who have been moved

  7. Theoretical Musings: The Language of Hip Hop • Moguls/pimps (Entrepreneurship) • Vixens/hos (Sexuality) • Bitches/glamazons (Power) • Gangsta (mafia)/antihero

  8. Central Question • How do race, gender, and sexuality interface in online hip hop mediums, mediums that target youth audiences?

  9. Analysis • VIBE (October 24, 2009) • VIBE Redesigned Vibe • VIBE Redesigned VIBE

  10. Analysis • The Images • The Context • The Message • Being Booked • The Crime • The Show • The Loss

  11. Final Thoughts • Prisons & Closets (Collins, 2005) • Currency & Hip Hop • Gender • Sexuality • Age For a copy of this presentation and/or a copy of the paper, go to http://people.uncw.edu/roseborod/

  12. References • Salt N Pepa (n. d.). Retrieved on April 23, 2010 from http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=266778165 • Public Enemy (n. d.). Retrieved on April 23, 2010 from http://www.djgroovefrequency.co.uk/ • Run DMC (n. d.) Retrieved on April 23, 2010 from http://www.king-mag.com/online/?cat=56 • Hip Hop Grafitti (n. d.) Retrieved on April 26, 2010 from www.freewebs.com/zulfikardashareef/ • Internet (n.d.) Retrieved on April 26, 2010 from www.macedoniablogs.gr/%CE%91%CF...om?page=2 • Prison bars (n.d.) Retrieved on April 26, 2010 from http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=1073124&refnum=little_bobek • Beyonce concert (n.d.). Retreived on April 26, 2010 from malayfm.com • Book (n.d.) Retrieved on April 26, 2010 from https://college.livetext.com/doc/2337136

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