Soul Thieves: The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture (Contemporary Black History)

by T Brown and B. Kopano

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Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.
  • ISBN13 9780230108974
  • Publish Date 17 December 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 284
  • Language English