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IMAGINING A BETTER WORLD:

Rap Music Skepticism and the Civic Activism of Young African Americans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2019

Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey ,
Ray Block Jr.  and
Harwood K. McClerking
Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Georgia State University
Ray Block Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and African American & Africana Studies Program, University of Kentucky
Harwood K. McClerking
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
*
*Corresponding author: Associate Professor Ray Block, Jr. African American and Africana Studies Program and Department of Political Science, 1655 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington KY 40506-0027. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Despite a recent increase in research on its sociopolitical implications, many questions regarding rap music’s influence on mass-level participation remain unanswered. We consider the possibility that “imagining a better world” (measured here as the degree to which young African Americans are critical of the music’s negative messages) can correlate with a desire to “build a better world” (operationalized as an individual’s level of political participation). Evidence from the Black Youth Project (BYP)’s Youth Culture Survey (Cohen 2005) demonstrates that rap critique exerts a conditional impact on non-voting forms of activism. Rap critique enhances heavy consumers’ civic engagement, but this relationship does not occur among Blacks who consume the music infrequently. By demonstrating rap’s politicizing power and contradicting certain criticisms of Hip Hop culture, our research celebrates the possibilities of Black youth and Black music.

Keywords

Rap MusicPopular CultureVoter TurnoutPolitical ParticipationBlack Youth
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State of the Art
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Fall 2018 , pp. 353 - 385
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Copyright © Hutchins Center for African and African American Research 2019 

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