Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

by Anthony B. Pinn

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In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to distinguish death from life. This distinction is produced and maintained through the construction of Blackness as deathlife. Drawing on Afropessimism and Black moralism, Pinn...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1478020601

ISBN13:9781478020608

Release Date:January 2024

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.08 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Music Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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