Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women

by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Book Overview

Untangles the intricately knotted issues around hip-hop culture and its treatment of young black women

Pimps 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 this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814740642
• ISBN13: 9780814740644
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.2"