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Rap Sessions: Is America Really Post-Racial?
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Critically acclaimed author Bakari Kitwana and the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media host a townhall discussion that asks if America is really "post-race." A diverse panel of leading artists, scholars and activists offers a candid conversation about the ways race and democracy are being redefined. Part of a national “Rap Sessions” tour led by Kitwana, these interactive townhall meetings focus on the hip-hop generation that helped build early support for America's first black president to debate the extent to which young Americans have opened up a new chapter in American race relations.
Featured panelists include:
Jabari Asim
, Editor-in-Chief of
Crisis
magazine and author of
The N-Word: Who Can Say it, Who Shouldn’t and Why;
Lisa Fager Bediako
, president and cofounder of Industry Ears, Inc., an advocacy/activist think tank focused on hip-hop media;
Timuel Black
, an educator and social activist;
Invincible,
a Detroit-based hip-hop artist and activist; and
Tricia Rose
, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and author of the first scholarly text on hip-hop culture,
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, 1994.
The discussion is moderated by
Bakari Kitwana
, author of
The Hip-Hop Generation
and cofounder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention.
Recorded Thursday, April 16, 2009 at
Film Row Cinema
.
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