BAMS206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Stokely Carmichael, High School Dropouts, Blue-Collar Worker

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Black American Studies
• Course: BAMS206
• Professor: Drew Brown, Ph D

Document Summary

Growing unrest: new political rhetoric from stokely carmichael, malcolm x, and the black. Structure of rap: narratives, experiences, news: jay-z says he finds cnn and rap music to be very similar, griots: storytellers in traditional african culture. Rappers/singers are new age griots : political commentary: political climate in black urban areas, voice of the black community: those who can"t speak can speak thru the music or allow the music to speak for them. In chicago inner city ghetto areas revealed that only 19% of residents have access to an automobile public opinion polls in the us routinely reflect the notion that people are jobless is from their own merits. Redlining: the fair housing act discontinued mortgage restrictions based on racial composition of neighborhoods. Upon release from incarceration, a prison record carries a stigma and eyes of employers and decreases probability that ex- offender will be hired, resulting in a greater likeliness of joblessness.