Rap Music is examined for multicultural commentary, concepts of social inequality, gender, race, and justice are explored; semiotics and symbology is discussed, and the process of intersectionality as a method of understanding individual's identities is contemplated.

1. Chapter 3:
Globalizing Body Politics
Intercultural Com
m
unication: Globalization
and
Social Justice
by Kathryn
Sorrells, Sage. 2013.

2. WHAT are BODY POLITICS?
Practices and policies through which power is:
• Marked
•Regulated
•Negotiated
on and through the body. - (Sorrells, 2013.)
“Our bodies are sites where categories of social differences are constructed.”
Sorrells,K. Intercultural Communication. Sage. 2013.
1930s Boy At Bat
Wearing A Horizonal
Striped Tee Shirt
and Baseball Cap
www.allposters.com
By: H. Armstrong Roberts
American Girl Doll Hit By Recession
By: Mary Beth Sammons
Apr 13th 2011 11:15AM
http://www.parentdish.com/2011/04/13/american-girl-doll-hit-by-recession
/

3. Hip hop culture
Who is a part of the hip hop culture?
What makes it up?
Contesting the Mark of Criminality: Race,
Place, and the Prerogative of Violence in
N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton
NCA: National Communication Association
Critical Studies In Media Communication
Bryan J. McCann

4. Where is Hip Hop Observed?
KID ROCK
ANNOUNCES
BORN FREE TOUR,
PROMISES BIG
OPENING
IN DETROIT. –
HitPredictor Blog
http
://hitpredictor.wordpr
/
http://crispycelebs.co
m/tag/kid-rock-
songs/
Rajinder Singh Rai (Punjabi:
ਰਿਜੰਦਰ ਿਸੰਘ; born in
Coventry, United Kingdom ),
better known by his stage
name Panjabi MC is an
English musician.

5. Why did Hip Hop start?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMkEMCHtJ4
The Message - "The Message" is a song by
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. It was released as a single by
Sugar Hill Records on July 1, 1982 and was later featured on the group's first studio album,
The Message. "The Message" was the first prominent

6. When did it start?
The Sugar Hill Gang performs Rappers
Delight on Soul Train. Ep. 361, 5/16/1981.
The Sugarhill Gang is an American Rap
music group, known mostly for its 1979 hit
"Rapper's Delight," the first rap single to
become a Top 40 hit.

7. Hip Hop: Gender and Race

8. Gender Differences are…
Constructed through communication and imposed on our bodies.
physical differences traditionally attributing to two mutually exclusive
gender categories.
What kind of
cultural
“norms” have
been ascribed to
the male
and/or female
genders ?

9. Gender is culturally constructed and ascribed to
an individual
Transgendered people are not new and are found
globally:
-hijras in India and Pakistan
-fa’afine in Samoa
- two-spirits in Native American cultures
- The notion of gender persitsts; despite a third
gender having been established in Germany,
India, Nepal and elsewhere.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv-Sm-r280s
Germany Acknowledges Third Gender - TheLipTV.
retrieved 2014
“We’
Wha the Revered Zuni Man-Woma
” - twospirits.org

10. Five Genders? : National Geographic
Uploaded on Oct 21, 2008
Through many options for gender expression, including recognizing five genders, this
Indonesian community finds balance and peace and prays to share this with the
world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VmLJ3niVo

11. Racial differences
Race- Categorizes groups based on physical characteristics.
“Human beings participate in the creation of our own
realities” .(Sorrells, 2013.)

12. Gender Difference : Male versus Female
Sarah Haskins- Target Women
Doofy Husbands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-FqEaU5Qg
Jewelry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHbPeRvcIc
Cleaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrXRN0zdoA0
Birth Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhaEzjrmrrE
Carls, Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feW7E9h7AdM
Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2fsiWyOQvI
Photo courtesy current.com
http://www.motherjones.com
/media/2009/06/mojo-
interview-comedian-sarah-
haskins

13. The History of Art in 3 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZOsR0TzbJ8
Gender stratification has occurred throughout time.
Del LaGrace Volcano, Mo B Dick, Half
and Half, 1998
- See more at:
http://wtfarthistory.com/post/3613
8901869/gender-and-
art#sthash.q32q2beZ.dpuf

14. Fist Fight At The Waffle House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dya0UU0meD4
Uploaded on Dec 7, 2010
Brian Haner - "Fistfight at the Wafflehouse" (Official Music Video)
Submitted by Tracy C “My (now EX) husband and I went as a white trash
couple. I used a fake belly, curlers, robe…he had a mullet wig,
tractor hat, flannel shirt and stained white tshirt. We won 1st
place :)”
http://whitetrashrepairs.com/white-trash/tag/halloween-
contest/page/9/

15. Semiotics: interpreting culture through visual
language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URtgt2c7Udc
Uploaded on Oct 1, 2009
A digital story by Cheskin Added Value that illustrates how semiotics, as a method of
inquiry, is used to interpret evidence of behaviors in the culture by analyzing the
narrative discourse that exists in visual media
The semiotic triangle shows the
interaction among sign, concept and
object as they relate to individuals.
HCFL Tutorial
http://www.rdillman.com/HFCL/TUTOR/
Semiotics/sem4.html

16. The Five K’s: example of cultural signs and
meaning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9tI4WekMHE
BBC Published on Jul 1, 2012
The semiotic
triangle shows the
interaction among
sign, concept and
object as they relate
to individuals.
HCFL Tutorial
http://www.rdillman
.com/HFCL/TUTOR/
Semiotics/sem4.ht
ml
http://arthpatelhrt3m7.wikispaces.com/Law
s+and+Ethics

17. Fair and Lovely Facewash future tube
Published on Jul 31, 2012
Introducing the Fair & Lovely Future Tube to rural audiences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGepwMtV7R8

18. Whiteness
Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible, Pt. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KYJl0PECv8
Three part series- published jul 1, 2012
Image from:
http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jscully/Race
/resources.htm

19. Bell Hooks
Part 8 Cultural Criticism (rap
music)
Uploaded on Dec 10, 2006
renowned intellectual bell hooks
examines popular culture in the
context of patriarchy, white
supremacy, and capitalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Xtoanes_L_g
- image from:
http://www.theorycards.org.uk/car
d11.htm

20. Tricia Rose
TEDXBROWN. Creating Conversations on Justice
Uploaded on Jul 26, 2011
Dr. Tricia Rose suggests that there is still work to be done in thinking about questions
of community, equality and justice. Her focus is not on the issues of structural
oppression, but on the difficulty in creating an honest conversation about these
issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmoiH1PkHGQ

21. Intersectionality
Race and Gender in
Hollywood– an
intersectionality Project
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=JAK0gVeMsfY
PSA: Intersectionality
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=VKN7e5vz1SI
Image from:
http://elearning.la.psu.edu/wmnst/245/less
on-2/images/Intersectionality.jpg/view