It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation (35 page)

 

ABC,

ABC News,

Abu-Jamal, Mumia

AC/DC

activism, merger of art and (artivist)

Adidas

advertising

hip-hop artists and

targeted at children

affirmative action

Africa, John

African National Congress (ANC)

Afriya, Afrar

Afrocentricity

agricultural workers

AIDS

Alexander, Honey

Alexander, Lamar

alienation

All Eyez on Me

Alliance for a Media Literate America

Ambrosius, Marsha

American Airlines

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

American Legislative Exchange

Council

Amnesty International

André 3000 (André Benjamin)

anemia

Angelou, Maya

AOL

apartheid in South Africa

Artis, Ahmed

artists, role of Black

the artivist

Asante, M. K., Jr. (author)

Afrocentricity and

medium of an artivist

the police and

as professor

“Two Sets of Notes,”

Ashhurst-Watson, Carmen

As Nasty as They Wanna Be

asthma

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlantic Records

Attica prison

Austin, Algernon

Austin, James

Avant, Clarence

Bad Boy Records

Bailey, Patrick

Baker, Ella

Baldwin, James

Ball, Dr. Jared

Baltimore, Maryland

inner-city violence

Bambaataa, Afrika

Bandele, Asha

Banner, David

Baraka, Amina

Baraka, Amiri (formerly LeRoi Jones)

Baraka, Ras

Baraldini, Silvia

Barrel of a Pen
(Thiong’o)

Barron, Charles

Baudrillard, Jean

B-boys

Beastie Boys

Beck, Allen

Bee, Brucie

Belafonte, Harry

Bell, Sean

Benjamin, Andre (Andre 3000)

Bennett, Lerone, Jr.

Bennett, William

Bentham, Jeremy

BET

Big Boi (Antwan Patton)

Big Momma’s House

Big Sea, The

Biko, Steve

Billboard

Bin Hassan, Omar

Birth of a Nation

Blackademics (Web site)

Black Arts Collective

Black Bourgeoisie, The
(Frazier)

Black Boy
(Wright)

“Black Feminism: the Politics of Articulation,”

Black Panther Party for Self Defense (Black Panthers)

as FBI target

founding of

Ten Point Program

Black Power

popularizing of term

Black Student’s Guide to Positive Education
(Kondon)

Blake, James

Blokhedz

Bloomberg, Michael

Blow, Kurtis

blues

exploitation of blues musicians

blues, the

Blues People
(Baraka)

Bluest Eye, The
(Morrison)

Bluford, Guion “Guy,” Jr.

Boeing

Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (HR 4437)

Boys in the Hood

Bracero, Demetrio

breakbeat DJing

breakdancing

Brecht, Bertolt

Britain

Bronx, New York

Bronx River Community Center

Brown, James

Brown, Jim

Brown, Ruth

Brown v. Board of Education

Buddha

Burton, LeVar

Bush, Alyce

Bush, George W.

businesses, Black-owned

Bynoe, Yvonne

California

prison guards union

three-strikes law

California Republic flag

Campbell, Don

Campbell, Luther

Campellock (dance style)

Canibus

capital punishment cases

Carlos, John

Carmichael, Stokely

Cash Money

Catlett, Elizabeth, “Caught Up,”

CBS

celebrity culture

censorship, corporate

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Media and Public Affairs

Center for Media Literacy

Centers for Disease Control

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Operation Phoenix

Challenger

“Changes,”

Cheba, Eddie

check-cashing businesses

Chesimard, Joanne,
see
Shakur, Assata Chess, Marshal

Chess Records

Chevron

Chic

Chicago, Illinois

Children of the Ghetto
(Zangwill)

Chinese restaurants, take-out

“Christmas Rappin’,”

Chuck D

Civil Rights Act of

civil rights movement

freedom songs of

intergenerational dialogue

Clark, L.

Clear Channel

Clemens, Harold

Cleveland, Ohio

climate change

Clinton, Bill, administration of

Clinton Correctional Facility for

Women

clothing

symbolic of prison

Clutchette, John

Cobb, William Jelani

cocaine (powder)

crack,
see
crack cocaine federal sentencing laws

Cochran, Johnnie

Cohen, Lyor

COINTELPRO

Cold Crush Brothers

Coleman, Ornette

Coles, Tiffany

colonialism

Color of Change

Color Purple, The
(Walker) (novel, film, and play)

Columbia Records

Combs, Sean

Common (rapper)

Compaq

Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)

Congressional Black Caucus

Conquest of Cool, The
(Frank)

consumerism

white audience for Black music

contras, Honduran

Conyers, John

Coppin State University

Corbin, Gregory “Just Greg,”

Cornelius, Don

corporations

advertising,
see
advertising censorship by

commercialization of hip hop

mass media,
see
mass media outsourcing of jobs overseas

ownership of Black music

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)

Coryat, Thomas

Cosby, Bill

Cosby Show, The

Cotton, Shaquanda

Coup, the

crack cocaine

federal sentencing laws

Reagan administration foreign policy and flooding of inner cities with

Criminal Minded

Cruise, Dr. Harold

Cuba

Dahl, Steve

Dale, John

Dash, Julie

Daugherty, Reverend Herbert

Daughters of the Dust

Davey D

Davis, Angela

Davis, Kiri

Davis, Mark

Davis, Mike

Davis, Ossie

Dead President

Dead Prez

altercation and civil suit against the NYPD, “Death of a Nation,”

Death Row by Interscope

December 12th Movement

Dee, Ruby

Def Jam Records

de Klerk, F. W.

De La Soul

Dell Computer

Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)

depression

Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Police Department

Devastating Tito

Devlin, Bernadette

diabetes

Diallo, Amadou

Dialogue

Dialogue, A
(Baldwin)

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Dickerson, Artell

Diddley, Bo

Dioum, Baba

disabled and SSI

Disco Fever (nightclub)

disco music

djeli tradition of West Africa

DJ Hollywood

DJ Junebug

DJ Lord

DJ Yella

DLB

domestic violence

domestic workers

Donne, John

Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Do the Right Thing

Douglas, Emory

Douglass, Frederick

Dowden, Edward

Dre, Dr.

Dreamers of the Ghetto
(Zangwill)

drugs

juvenile prisons and

mass media stories

rehab programs

sentencing laws

“three strikes” laws and

War on Drugs

see also specific drugs
Drumgo, Fleeta

drum machines, programmable

DuBois, W. E. B.

Dukakis, Michael

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

Dutchman

ear infections

Eazy-E

Eco, Umberto

Eddie Bauer

education

Brown v. Board of Education

challenging mainstream

conditions in ghetto schools

culturally relevant

dropouts

funding of schools

health of children and

purposes of

segregated

self-education

Supreme Court desegregation decision

“Two Sets of Notes,”

white version of history

Ehrlichman, John

Eichmann, Adolf

Eisenhower, Dwight D., administration of

Elektra Records

emcees

categorizing of

dominating effect of mainstream on

EMI Group