Pimps Up, Ho's Down provides a vital critical   assessment of the sexual exploitation of women and girls all too prevalent   in hip hop culture and in our larger society. This intelligent and   sensitively written study is mandatory reading for those of us who must   stop the violence. --Darlene Clark Hine, co-author of A Shining   Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America  "This compelling, well-researched-and alarming-account of how hip hop   culture has impacted the lives and shaped the identities of young black   women should be read by women and men of every generation." --Paula   Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on   Race and Sex in America  Pimps Up, Ho's Down pulls at the threads of the intricately   knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What   unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics   of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a   feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, interrogates the   complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is   masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying.  Beyond their portrayal in rap lyrics, the display of black women in   music videos, television, film, fashion, and on the Internet is   indispensable to the mass media engineered appeal of hip hop culture, the   author argues. And the commercial trafficking in the images and behaviors   associated with hip hop has made them appear normal, acceptable, and   entertaining-both in the U.S. and around the world.  Sharpley-Whiting questions the impacts of hip hop's increasing alliance   with the sex industry, the rise of groupie culture in the hip hop world,   the impact of hip hop's compulsory heterosexual culture on young black   women, and the permeation of the hip hop ethos into young black women's   conceptions of love and romance.   The author knows her subject from the inside. Coming of age in the midst   of hip hop's evolution in the late 1980s, she mixed her graduate studies   with work as a runway and print model in the 1990s. Her book features   interviews with exotic dancers, black hip hop groupies, and hip hop   generation members Jacklyn "Diva" Bush, rapper Trina, and filmmaker Aishah   Simmons, along with the voices of many "everyday" young women.  Pimps Up, Ho's Down turns down the volume and amplifies the   substance of discussions about hip hop culture and to provide a space for   young black women to be heard.

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