Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning by Christopher M. Driscoll;Monica R Miller;Anthony B. Pinn;

Author:Christopher M. Driscoll;Monica R Miller;Anthony B. Pinn;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2019-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006).

2 Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Mining the Motherlode: Methods in Womanist Ethics (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2006), 10.

3 Darlene F. Weaver, Self-Love and Christian Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 21.

4 Reggie Ugwu, “The Radical Christianity of Kendrick Lamar,” Buzzfeed, February 3, 2015, accessed March 2, 2018, www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-radical-christianity-of-kendrick-lamar?utm_term=.xxnGMgA5J#.fkRy6XZJ4.

5 “Kendrick Lamar Breaks Down Tracks From ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ (Pt. 1) | MTV News,” YouTube Video, 10:52, posted by “MTV,” March 31, 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUEI_ep9iDs.

6 Kendrick Lamar, “Alright” and “i,” on To Pimp a Butterfly, Aftermath; ASIN: B00UI23ZC0.

7 Lisa Robinson, “The Gospel of Kendrick Lamar,” Vanity Fair, June 28, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018, www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/06/kendrick-lamar-cover-story.

8 Josh Hoxie, “Black and Latinos Will Be Broke in a Few Decades,” Fortune, September 19, 2017, accessed January 9, 2018, http://fortune.com/2017/09/19/racial-inequality-wealth-gap-america/.

9 Robinson, “The Gospel of Kendrick Lamar.”

10 “Richard Pryor The N Word,” YouTube Video, 3:35, posted by “Kurt Wagner,” April 14, 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=hULhZqhw9yU.

11 Emilie Townes, Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

12 Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, “The ‘Loves’ and ‘Troubles’ of African American Women’s Bodies: The Womanist Challenge to Cultural Humiliation and Community Ambivalence,” in Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader, ed. Katie G. Cannon, Emilie M. Townes, and Angela D. Sims (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011), 97.

13 Anthony B. Pinn, Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2003).

14 Katie Cannon, Black Womanist Ethics (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988).

15 Beyond the common definition cited in In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens, Walker also frames the concept in another essay, “Coming Apart,” in The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought, ed. Layli Phillips (New York: Routledge, 2006), 3–11.

16 Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (New York: Plume Books, 1993), 174.

17 Black Star, “Thieves in the Night,” on Mos Def and Talib Kweli Are Black Star, Rawkus Entertainment; ASIN: B001NSCCV8.

18 Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Mining the Motherlode: Methods in Womanist Ethics (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2006), 8–11.

19 Karen Baker-Fletcher, “A Womanist Journey,” in Stacey Floyd-Thomas, ed., Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society (New York: New York University Press, 2006), 158–175.

20 Floyd-Thomas, Mining the Motherlode, 10.

21 Floyd-Thomas, Mining the Motherlode, 26.

22 It is also critical to avoid not glossing over the well-documented tendencies of some rap artists to trade in equally damaging aspects – namely, the sexist, homophobic, misogynistic lyrics that easily challenge any notion that rap music can be affirming or a medium of truth-telling. While aware of the destructive characteristics, hopefully, this chapter’s focus on the more positive message possibilities in Lamar’s music can serve as a critique of the former while also prompting future artists to take seriously this critique in the continuation of perfecting their craft.

23 Townes, Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil, 22.

24 For additional resources that document the roles that spirituals and blues music played in African American culture, see Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (New York: Vintage Books,

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