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Employing the latest resources in social networking sites, this course will study hip hop’s historical and present-day culture. To that end, each student will develop a project interrogating some unique aspect of this powerful expressive genre. Hip-hop encompasses three generations of people of African descent as well as Puerto Ricans and people of Latin heritage. What happens with the people and communities who contributed to the birth of a culture, its aesthetics, its philosophies, and its socio-political critiques are less than 10% of those writing about its culture and history on Wikipedia. If the word is bond, paying attention to knowledge creation matters.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Content Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
It's time to think critically about hip hop related articles on Wikipedia and Wikipedia articles generally. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article, and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Read one of the following and review existing conversations on its talk page. Click through to learn or discover "who," "what," where," and "how" most of the editors associated with the article are approaching the topic. Notice any bias based on what you are learning from studying hip-hop literature.
Pick one of the five choices below in order to critique the articles and respective talk pages for this week's module:
SATISFACTION METRIC FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT: The aim is to have a minimum of 10 edits (no more than 5 can be minor edits) for the course to earn a C to a B-. Additional edits will improve your grade. If you compose a new article or make a significant contribution to one or more articles.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to one of the articles from the previous module and one to an article related to your favorite reading from the course or the book of your choice for the course.
Apply the concepts of power, stratification, and oppression to your work:
culture
a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created and shared by a group of people over time as well as shaped by the institutions they establish. It is learned and taught; shared and contested, symbolic and material all shaped by norms, values, symbols and mental maps of reality. (K. Guest, Cultural Anthropology, 2014).
power
the ability or potential to bring about change through action or influence, either one's own or that of a group or institution. It may include the ability to influence through force or the threat of force. It is embedded in social relations from interpersonal to institutional by race and racism, ethnicity and nationalism, gender, human sexuality, economics, and family. (K. Guest, Cultural Anthropology, 2014: 46).
stratification
power in any culture reflects the uneven distribution of resources and privileges among its participants. People are drawn into the center of a culture and others are ignored, marginalized, or even annihilated. Power may be distributed along lines of gender, racial or ethnic groups, class, age, family, religion, sexuality, or legal status. Structures of power organize relationships and create frameworks through which access to resources is distributed. (K. Guest, Cultural Anthropology, 2014: 46).
oppression
Used by political sociologists to refer to an imbalance where relatively few people are advantaged by policy and practice, while the greater majority is not. Defined as "those attitudes, behaviors, and pervasive and systematic social arrangments by which members of one group are exploited and subordinated while members of another group are granted privileges" (Bohmer & Briggs, 1991, p. 155 quoted in Glasberg and Shannon, 2011, p. 1).
There are two ways you can do this:
SATISFACTION METRIC FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT: The aim is to have a minimum of 10 edits (no more than 5 can be minor edits) for the course to earn a C to a B-. Additional edits will improve your grade. If you compose a new article or make a significant contribution to one or more articles.
Choose an article. Could be one you've been working on or something new related to the course.
[Always] Read through it, thinking about ways to improve the language, such as fixing grammatical mistakes. Then, make the appropriate changes. You don’t need to contribute new information to the article.
Apply the concepts of power, stratification, and oppression to your work:
culture
a system of knowledge, beliefs, patterns of behavior, artifacts, and institutions that are created and shared by a group of people over time as well as shaped by the institutions they establish. It is learned and taught; shared and contested, symbolic and material all shaped by norms, values, symbols and mental maps of reality. (K. Guest, Cultural Anthropology, 2014).
power
the ability or potential to bring about change through action or influence, either one's own or that of a group or institution. It may include the ability to influence through force or the threat of force. It is embedded in social relations from interpersonal to institutional by race and racism, ethnicity and nationalism, gender, human sexuality, economics, and family. (K. Guest, Cultural Anthropology, 2014: 46).
stratification
power in any culture reflects the uneven distribution of resources and privileges among its participants. People are drawn into the center of a culture and others are ignored, marginalized, or even annihilated. Power may be distributed along lines of gender, racial or ethnic groups, class, age, family, religion, sexuality, or legal status. Structures of power organize relationships and create frameworks through which access to resources is distributed. (K. Guest, Cultural Anthropology, 2014: 46).
oppression
Used by political sociologists to refer to an imbalance where relatively few people are advantaged by policy and practice, while the greater majority is not. Defined as "those attitudes, behaviors, and pervasive and systematic social arrangments by which members of one group are exploited and subordinated while members of another group are granted privileges" (Bohmer & Briggs, 1991, p. 155 quoted in Glasberg and Shannon, 2011, p. 1).
SATISFACTION METRIC FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT: The aim is to have a minimum of 10 edits (no more than 5 can be minor edits) for the course to earn a C to a B-. Additional edits will improve your grade. If you compose a new article or make a significant contribution to one or more articles.
You'll want to find or create an appropriate photo, illustration, or piece of video/audio to add to an article.
SATISFACTION METRIC FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT: The aim is to have a minimum of 10 edits (no more than 5 can be minor edits) for the course to earn a C to a B-. Additional edits will improve your grade. If you compose a new article or make a significant contribution to one or more articles.
To prepare for our final analyses of systemic bias in editing Wikipedia, we should strive to understand intersectionality through a theory: standpoint theory.
Standpoint theorists emphasize the utility of a naturalistic, or everyday experiential, concept of knowing (i.e., epistemology). One's standpoint (whether reflexively considered or not) shapes which concepts are intelligible, which claims are heard and understood by whom, which features of the world are perceptually salient, which reasons are understood to be relevant and forceful, and which conclusions credible.[1]
To get a perspective on the significance of intersectionality to our critique of hip-hop culture as well as Wikipedia, watch this keynote by Columbia Professor Kimberle Crenshaw from March 2016 as part of the WoW Festival in UK (Women of the World Festival will return to Apollo in 2017):
Kimberlé Crenshaw - On Intersectionality - keynote - WOW 2016
When you examine how Wikipedia articles represent regional scenes in the U.S., you can see below that Omaha has it's on category in Cities but Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, or the South Bronx are missing. Why? Because these scenes are associated with its roots as if they no longer produce music and culture.
Online, we are oriented towards a standpoint of time in seconds and minutes but not dates in timelines, updates, and in Wikipedia articles. How does the standpoint of living in an always-on mobile media ecology where our attention to time is a "now" phenomenon or orientation, how does this affect the shaping of a "history" regional styles on Wikipedia? Who and what is left out?
How are women and non-black or non-white males overlooked because of attention to region? Men and boys have more access to public spaces even as communities of color are being limited from occupying the public sphere. Policed off the sidewalk, the middle of the street, off the street corner, out of the mall, off private property and public school yards or property after hours; the policing of black and brown bodies in public spaces leaves girls and women to deal with street sexual harassment while they contend with more intimate partner violence at home that other demographics, esp black and brown girls.
This allows us to make writing about regional hip hop a feminist project, or, in other words, we can apply standpoint theory to open up the way readers of WP think about regionalism as political not only along the lines of race but also gender and sexuality. Perhaps their spaces are hidden in clubs and homes.
Where, in what places and regions, do female emcees flow? Here's an example of the imagined community of local female emcees led by Toni Blackman as part of Rhyme like a girl. Also check out Hip Hop Sisters dot com.
Where would Black Lily fit into this template/taxonomy?
http://blacklily.com/
Black Lily is committed to supporting women artists of all ages by highlighting their work and providing opportunities for networking and training. Black Lily values women’s voices and seeks to educate the general public about the importance of women’s art. We value politically conscious art and underground art, and we are dedicated to education, diversity and collaboration through art, culture and entertainment.
Template:Regional hiphop in the United States
Here is the contents of the template for quick viewing but click the link above to see it in vivo.
Regions | East Coast West Coast Midwest Southern Pacific Northwest
Cities | Atlanta Baltimore Chicago Detroit Memphis Miami New Orleans Minneapolis/St. Paul New York Omaha Philadelphia Washington, D.C.
Complete at least two edits (one minor and one significant) based on your study above. This assignment is based on the notion of "strong objectivity"
Strong objectivity, is a term coined by feminist scholar Sandra Harding, also known for her work on feminist standpoint theory which is a method of research that is grounded in women's experiences. For strong objectivity, Harding suggests that starting research from the lives of women "actually strengthens standards of objectivity".[1]Strong
SATISFACTION METRIC FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT: The aim is to have a minimum of 10 edits (no more than 5 can be minor edits) for the course to earn a C to a B-. Additional edits will improve your grade. If you compose a new article or make a significant contribution to one or more articles.
