Fight the Power - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xii

Introduction - Still Fighting the Power

pp 1-18

Part I - Policing

pp 19-124

1 - From “Fuck tha Police” to Defund the Police: A Polemic, with Elements of Pragmatism and Accommodation, Hopefully Not Fatal, As Black People Hope About Encounters with the Police

pp 21-37

2 - Hip-Hop and Traffic Stops

pp 38-54

3 - “Black Cop”: It’s a Blue Thing (or Is It?)

pp 55-74

4 - “Illegal Search”: Race, Personhood, and Policing

pp 75-100

5 - “Cops Shot the Kid”: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Reasonableness Doctrine in Criminal Law

pp 101-124

Part II - Imprisonment

pp 125-172

6 - “Trauma”

pp 127-148

7 - Public Enemy’s “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos”

pp 149-172

Part III - Genders

pp 173-228

8 - Roxanne Shanté’s “Independent Woman”: Making Space for Women in Hip-Hop

pp 175-186

9 - From the 1930s to the 2020s: What Ice Cube’s Song “Endangered Species” Meant for Four Generations of Black Males

pp 187-206

10 - The Master’s Tools Will Not Dismantle the Master’s House: Hip-Hop, Young M.A., and Gender Norms

pp 207-228

Part IV - Protests

pp 229-313

11 - “Black Rage” and the Architecture of Racial Oppression

pp 231-250

12 - Abolition as Reparations: “This Is America” and the Anatomy of a Modern Protest Anthem

pp 251-265

13 - “The Message”: Resisting Cultures of Poverty in Urban America

pp 266-290

14 - Just to “Get By”: Poverty, Racism, and Smoking through the Lens of Talib Kweli and Nina Simone’s Music

pp 291-313

Index

pp 314-324