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Blacking up [videorecording] : hip-hop's remix of race and identity / a film by Robert A. Clift ; producer, director, Robert A. Clift ; writer, Robert A. Clift ; production of Robert A. Clift [and] Limbic Productions, Inc. in association with WTIU

Published
[United States] : California Newsreel, 2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Additional Creators
Clift, Robert A., Limbic Productions, WTIU (Television station : Bloomington, Ind.), Independent Television Service, and California Newsreel (Firm)

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Closed captioned.
Summary
"Hip-Hop was created by urban youth of color more than 30 years ago amid racial oppression and economic marginalization. It has moved beyond that specific community and been embraced by young people worldwide, elevating it to a global youth culture. The ambitious and hard-hitting documentary Blacking Up: hip-hop's remix of race and identity looks at the popularity of hip-hop among America's white youth. It asks whether white identification is rooted in admiration and a desire to transcend race or if it is merely a new chapter in the long continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and cultural appropriation? Does it reflect a new face of racial understanding in white America or does it reinforce an ugly history? Against the unique backdrop of american popular music, Blacking up explores racial identity in U.S. society. The film artfully draws parallels between the white hip-hop fan and previous incarnations of white appropriation from blackface performer Al Jolson to mainstream artists like Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and Eminem. It interweaves portraits of white hip-hop artists and fans with insightful commentary by African American cultural critics such as Amiri Baraka, Nelson George, Greg Tate, comedian Paul Mooney and hip-hop figures Chuck D., Russell Simmons, M1 of Dead Prez, and DJ Kool Herc"--Container.
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Copyrighted 2009 by ITVS.
Abington copy includes public performance rights.
Creation/Production Credits Note
Videographer, editor, Robert A. Clift.
Technical Details
DVD, NTSC; widescreen presentation.
Source of Acquisition
Brandywine copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2009.
Abington copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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