Pimps Up, Ho's Down : : Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women / / T. Denean Denean Sharpley-Whiting.

2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth AwardPimps Up, Ho’s Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In th...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Sex, Power, and Punanny
  • Introduction: Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy, But Somebody’s Got to Do It
  • 1 “I See the Same Ho”: Video Vixens, Beauty Culture, and Diasporic Sex Tourism
  • 2 Too Hot to Be Bothered: Black Women and Sexual Abuse
  • 3 “I’m a Hustla, Baby”: Groupie Love and the Hip Hop Star
  • 4 Strip Tails: Booty Clappin’, P-poppin’, Shake Dancing
  • 5 Coda, or a Few Last Words on Hip Hop and Feminism
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the author