Discussion Board posts are assigned to ensure students have an opportunity to exercise an ability to think outside of their own perspective and to think critically about the content presented within the readings, lectures, and by their classmates. Will need to be 300 words.
The text is attached, read the Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, and 3. Two videos will also be needed.
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHCA5b9TkVg
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzRLTyVF5TE
Prompt: “By colonialism we mean a relationship between two (or more) racially, ethnically, culturally, and spatially defined groups between which there is an absolute IMBALANCE of power, whereby one determines the ‘social, political, and economic’ condition of the other.” (Ball, 2011: 30). Please consider the following based upon our readings and lecture materials to foster your discussions: What are the ways that Jared Ball outlines the use of internal colonization theory within his text and why is it necessary to make his argument work in terms of the hip-hop nation? What do we make of the authors perception that the US empire (as a colonial body governing the hip-hop nation) “governs still the process of the theft and soul or the grossest forms of distortion and communication” concerning hip-hop? Lastly, please make connections between the videos about the origins of hip-hop and Tupac’s origins and tie them into your discussion where applicable.
