Eso No es Rap es Vida Real: Latinx Chicago Hip Hop Artists as Organic Intellectuals, Taking Control of the Narratives of their Communities

Author

Nike Roman, Scripps CollegeFollow

Graduation Year

2016

Document Type

Campus Only Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Chicano Studies

Second Department

Legal Studies

Reader 1

Martha Gonzalez

Reader 2

Mark Golub

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Abstract

This thesis analyzes at how Latinx Hip Hop artists from Chicago act as organic intellectuals within their community and how they use their platform as artists to challenge the narratives created by government officials that aim to criminalize their community in an effort to normalize and justify the policing of their neighborhoods.

Recommended Citation

Roman, Nike, "Eso No es Rap es Vida Real: Latinx Chicago Hip Hop Artists as Organic Intellectuals, Taking Control of the Narratives of their Communities" (2016). Scripps Senior Theses. 854.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/854