ETHN 3212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Convict Lease, Rainey Bethea, Fuck Tha Police
21 Nov 2017
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Hip-hop revolution: the culture and politics of rap by jeffrey ogbar. Chapter 5: locked up: police, the prison industrial complex, black youth and social control. Hip-hop has had a very complicated multifaceted relationship with the prison industrial complex. Bush and reagan expanded the prison industry to help accommodate the growing crime rates, but conservatives also wanted the privatization of prisons. In 1990, 1 in 4 black men were in prison. Black men also had the highest murder rates, social scientists deemed the (cid:271)la(cid:272)k (cid:373)a(cid:374) a(cid:374) (cid:862)e(cid:374)da(cid:374)gered spe(cid:272)ies. (cid:863) o(cid:373)e rappers rap a(cid:271)out their struggles i(cid:374) priso(cid:374), others rap about prison as a badge of honor/street cred. Prisons are portrayed as inherently racist by most rappers. The general consensus in the us is that prisons are an important institution in a civilized society that remove dangerous elements from the general public. However, african americans view the justice system in a different light.
