Week 05: 2Pac

2Pac, "Dear Mama" (US #51, 1992)

Week 05: 2Pac

Mo 09.17

Read: WARS—“Hip Hop Causes Violence” – “Hip Hop Hurts Black People”

Class: Reading discussion; Presentations

We 09.19

Read: WARS—“Hip Hop is Destroying America’s Values” – “Hip Hop Demeans Women”

Class: Reading discussion; Lecture—“On Wordiness: Exercises”
Due: EXPOSITORY ESSAY

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Week 06: Michael Jackson
Mo 09.24
Read: WARS—“Just Keeping it Real” – “’There are Bitches and Hoes’”
Class: Watch—Excerpts from And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop from VH1 (2004)

We 09.26
Read: WARS—“We’re Not Role Models” – “Nobody Talks about the Positive in Hip Hop”
Class: Reading discussion; Presentations; Lecture—“How to Build a Solid Argument”
Due: REFLECTION 03 

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