Date of Award
5-2017
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Legacy Department
Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design
Committee Member
Victor J. Vitanza
Committee Member
Chenjerai Kumanyika
Committee Member
Jillian Weise
Committee Member
Christina Hung
Abstract
Hip-Hop Studies, while pushing boundaries in some respects, particularly the intersections of many different disciplines, reproduces certain forms of – and assumptions about – knowledge production. Additionally, some conventions in the discipline and certain types of scholarly performances of Hip-Hop scholarship render blackness pathological – even in the service of combating what is understood to be antiblackness, by virtue of attempts to combat the notion that Hip-Hop culture is, in fact, deviant or bad or unworthy of study – and are complicit in the denial of what P. Khalil Saucier and Tyron Woods describe as “black sentient humanity and the complex interplay between culture and historical context †in the field [276]. “Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions†serves as one of many possible explorations and analyses of this broader problem.
Recommended Citation
Carson, A.D., "Owning My Masters: The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions" (2017). All Dissertations. 1885.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/1885