Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for...
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Author: Anthony B. Pinn
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Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness by Pinn, Anthony B.

Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

$96.65

Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness

$96.65
Author: Anthony B. Pinn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to distinguish death from life. This distinction is produced and maintained through the construction of Blackness as deathlife. Drawing on Afropessimism and Black moralism, Pinn theorizes deathlife as a technology of whiteness that projects whites' anxieties about the end of their lives onto the Black other. Examining the music of Jay-Z; Kendrick Lamar; Tyler, the Creator; and others, Pinn shows how hip hop configures the interconnection and dependence between death and life in such a way that death and life become indistinguishable. In so doing, Pinn demonstrates that hip hop presents an alternative to deathlife that challenges the white supremacist definitions of Blackness and anti-Blackness more generally.

Author: Anthony B. Pinn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/12/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781478025412

About the Author
Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently, Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together, also published by Duke University Press.

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