Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Humanities
First Advisor
Edidin, Aron
Area of Concentration
Philosophy
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is twofold. The first is to synthesize my four years of academic instruction in philosophy with contemporary social theories (from both academic and non-academic but culturally relevant sources) in order to create the term “cultural gentrification.” In the context of cultural gentrification, I examine hip-hop as a music genre and subculture pertinent to contemporary representations of blackness in American society and subcultures. The second is to examine the intersections between hip-hop performance and contemporary avenues of identity expression in order to draw conclusions toward hip-hop’s relationship to both blackness and cultural gentrification. I do so to illustrate how cultural gentrification can occur, how the preservation of black socio-political ideology has persisted throughout the history of hip-hop’s development and why it is essential for academic philosophy to account for the effects of racialized epistemologies on one’s ontological perspectives.
Recommended Citation
Iton, Miles, "CULTURAL GENTRIFICATION: Hip-Hop & Racial Epistemologies in the United States" (2018). Theses & ETDs. 5530.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/5530