Your final project for this course should use hip-hop feminism (intersectional mode of analysis—race, class, gender, sexuality, geography, etc.) to produce a material artifact:
Project Should be doing something—if this is an anti-feminist or feminist project, be able to use sources to back-up your position. If the project is seeking to discover something(s)—name what that something(s) are and how they are important to social justice or social consciousness? You may not believe or identify with feminism—many people of color do not.
conclusion.
importantly how are you using hip-hop feminism to frame the project? Why is
this topic important?
know the history of trap music; cite articles, music videos, interviews, etc. used
to develop project. There should be at least five academic sources included;
Include a paper rationale with creative projects
Example of project paper: http://thegoodproject.org/wp- content/uploads/2012/09/GoodWork20.pdf
Final Presentation—Week 15
Expectations for presentations (rubric) (no less than seven minutes and more than 15 minutes) Delivery (if you are using media time your presentation. Group projects—time each person’s portion of
the presentation, be respectful of the time).
o Media (documentary, video, music, interviews, magazine, art, etc….)
o Visual Aids
oProvide updated (revised and edited) abstract/handout with bibliography (day of
presentation)
o If group project—each group member must speak to their contribution. If the final
product appears that only one person was needed or could have produced final project one letter grade will be deducted (everyone should be present and on time, ready to present)
Content/Organization
o Complete Project Title for example— ‘Don’t Trust A Big Butt & A Smile: Examining Misogynoir in Nicki Minaj’s Big Booty Hoes’
o Introduction—thesis, questions
o Summary of the project/paper
o Conclusion (what are the findings? What is the so what? What did you learn? Relate
to the field and research—hip hop feminism)
Mastery of the Subjects
o Leading question(s) clear and concise
o Research beyond the course (additional sources, utilized archive, conducted
interviews)
o Placed project into the larger conversation of hip hop feminism and specific
focus(es)
o Race, gender, sexuality, class, intersectional should be used. If you are researching
topics related to misogyny (misogynoir—Moya Baily) you should be able to speak to
NO project should omit any of these! If so, you will be severally marked down.
Group Projects: If submitting a creative piece such as a magazine submit (hard and digital copy) in the proper format (see ITS before due date); one submission for the group with each member’s name where appropriate. For example–in the table of contents: God Is A Woman …. Shez Dees 20–24. If you are co-
writing a paper by section–note the change in voice through subheading or create a table of contents. There should be one works cited page.
Creative Projects: If you are submitting a creative project do not wait until the last minute to submit on sakai. If you find that you are unable to upload, create a youtube page and submit the link along with the works cited page with the final abstract. If you are having issues with submitting please contact the ITS office before contacting me. I will not accept late work.
Papers: Please make sure you went to the writing center! You cannot do everything in a small paper, do one thing and do it well.
Focus on one music video as suppose to a broad topic such as white patriarchy. Use that music video to rethink patriarchy—focus on what work the music video does and what work it does not do–moving us to think about the medium, the artist, and patriarchy through blackness and the possibilities. Does Black patriarchy look different, if so, how? Is it fair to use white women’s feminism to think about Black identity and subjectivity through hip-hop culture? if hip-hop is a culture why are we holding it to a particular standard that re-centers white supremacy?
If you are looking at the hip-hop generation, think about how racism has been constructed—as if racism does not exist in hip-hop.
If you bring up a topic you must dedicate time to unpacking it. If you are using footnotes or endnotes–this is where you make a brief reference to a topic, person, subject, event that you do not plan to fully engage but believe the reader should know. Write as if I know nothing about this subject/topic.
Everyone please make sure you commit to either Hip-Hop or hip-hop; bell hooks are lower-cased; do not use “female” as a stand along term its Black female rappers or White female rappers or Black women in hip-hop; hip-hop music is not the same as hip-hop culture or the hip-hop generation (be clear which one you are speaking about). If you create a new term, define it! Use references to unpack the term.
If you are speaking about misogyny and people of color, you should have read Moya Bailey’s piece on misogynoir. Do not use words like “urban” without contextualizing the term and its meaning in this work. Be clear and intentional when it comes to voice, remember your audience. If you do not get what ratchet means, do not use it! It does not equal “hood” and seeing that I use the term very particularly, if you are arguing that the term is derogatory your sources should support this. No one should be using these terms in place of Black or blackness.
Do not use the board term “race” if you are speaking about a specific group, for example: Black women, Latino men or White women name them. I will mark you down for not specifically naming who you are writing about and speaking to. If it is not clear to me, that is a problem.
Everyone goes to what is the easiest groups such as Salt-N-Pepa and TLC, if what you provide is simply what you found on Wikipedia and there is no intervention—what is the argument? the purpose of this work? you might want to rethink your project. There are groups such as SWV, Total, Xscape, H.W.A, 702, Blaq, Oaktown 357, J.J. Fad, The Sequence, Conscious Daughters and so many others who speak to what this course is about. These artists aren’t recognized in the mainstream. What happened to them? what do they teach/show us about hip-hop? Why and now are they important to hip-hop feminism? black feminism? bottom culture? Ratchetness? hood politics? gangsta rap? the past? the future of hip-hop? what do they tell us about sexism? mainstream beauty standards? blackness as it intersects with ideals of
femininity and masculinity? etc…. who was the first male gay rapper? why are Black queer rappers constructed as freaks/oversexualized beings?
Those of you who seem to appear
