Hiphop Archive Newsletter
The Wire visits the Hiphop Archive
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The Hiphop Archive Newsletter is distributed six times a year. It provides information about what is going on at the Archive and on our website. |
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(Cast members of The Wire with Archive staff)
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Professor Marcyliena Morgan, Director
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World Hiphop: Japan
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Japan has been added to the Asia section of the Hiphop
Archive's World Hiphop page. Professor Dawn-Elissa Fischer is the
Principal Investigator for Japan for the Hiphop Archive.
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Black Youth Project
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The Black Youth Project's website is a cyber-resource center
for black youth and all those who are committed to enriching the lives of
black youth. Within the pages of this website, visitors can access research
summaries, read blogs about and by black youth, search an extensive rap
database, access black youth social justice organizations, and download social
justice curricula to teach. Arguably more than any other subgroup of Americans,
African American youth reflect the challenges of inclusion and empowerment in
the post-civil rights period as well as the challenges of web access and
digital spaces to call their own. Therefore, the intended purpose of this
website is to generate new media information, blogs, art, conversations,
webinars, and data that will expand the human and social capital of young
African Americans, facilitating their general empowerment through highlighting
their voices and experiences.
The Black Youth Project began as a research project
conducted by Professor Cathy Cohen, a political scientist at the University of
Chicago. The site was
originally designed for student researchers and others involved in the project
to keep them informed and post information about the ongoing study. As the work progressed, the student
researchers asked Professor Cohen to make the site available to the Black youth
who were being studied. They
argued that the youth had a right to know everything the researchers were
saying and that all youth should have access to data and writing. Once the youth became involved, the
students asked Professor Cohen to do even more. They wanted a site that the youth could use for information
that reflected them. The research students argued that the site should
aggregate and provide data and reports, and that it should support the youth by
allowing newspaper writing and a space to put up their own work up, etc. Professor Cohen say, "BYP was imagined
by young people who worked on the research project and had grander thoughts about
what the site could and should be. They kept saying: "We can do more." I call them 21st Century
scholars. They are not restricted
to reading just articles and books.
They have a different understanding of how technology works and what we
can do with it."
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Horrorcore:
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I Never Thought Hiphop Would Take It This Far
All Hollow's
Eve, or Halloween - a day that many do not necessarily associate with hiphop -
has become one of the most celebrated customs in the U.S. The link between this
pseudo-holiday and hiphop is actually stronger than most might think.
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