Oppositional culture, hip-hop, and the schooling of black youth.
详细信息
- 作者：Gosa ; Travis Lars.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2008
- 导师：McDonald, Katrina Bell
- 毕业院校：The Johns Hopkins University
- 专业：Black Studies.;Education, Sociology of.;Music.;Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
- ISBN：9780549579953
- CBH：3309663
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：23857662
- Pages：467
文摘
Oppositional Culture, Hip-Hop, & The Schooling of Black Youth is a study of hip-hop music and the schooling of black youth in contemporary society. While sociologists have been concerned about the role of this prevailing black youth culture in facilitating school resistance and disengagement, to date little is known about the school related content of hip-hop music. This dissertation builds on previous research by examining how hip-hop music (re)constructs racial-gender collective identities in opposition to formal education. This study evaluates the claim that hip-hop music's anti-intellectual, oppositional messages encourage black youth to turn away from schooling by establishing what notions of schooling, identity, and success are embedded in hip-hop music.;The analysis is guided by John Ogbu's cultural ecological theory of minority student achievement which posits that black achievement may be stifled by an oppositional youth culture involving negative assessments of the opportunity structure, distrust of schools, and the labeling of pro-schooling behaviors and attitudes as "inauthentic" or "acting white." Content analysis is conducted on a large, random sample of hip-hop song lyrics (n=3,030) spanning 1981 to 2005. MAXQDA2 computer software is used to determine whether thematic and conceptual patterns in the lyrics are consistent with oppositional culture theory. The prevalence of oppositional and pro-schooling content is examined over time, by artist gender and race, sub-genre, and geographical region.;The findings support the claim that hip-hop is primarily an oppositional culture. Hip-hop's achievement-related discourse involves a distrust of schools, promotes school resistance, and places school success outside of the confines of "authentic" blackness and black masculinity. Oppositional themes overshadow pro-schooling themes by a ratio of 4 to 1, have increased since the mid-1990s, are concentrated in the lyrics of black-male artists and so-called "gangster-rap," and are more prominent in west-coast and southern lyrics. Hip-hop's anti-school messages are linked to: (1) distrust of the criminal justice system, government, and employers; (2) the role modeling of street adults, professional athletes, and entertainers; and, (3) the uncertainty of black identity/masculinity in the post-Civil Rights era.