Rethinking Hip Hop Through the Politics of Uplift: Culture, Politics, and the Racial Wealth Divide.

In this paper I consider the political economy of cultural production situated within the post-Fordist model of capital accumulation. Both blues and hip hop emerged during key moments of crisis in capital accumulation and the ambivalent location of blacks in agricultural (Blues) and industrial (hip hop) transition. In each moment spatial transition, migration, and cultural production become sites of survival, resistance, meaning-making, and worlding. Part of a larger 17 city project on black wealth, I am most concerned with how black political theory and feminist political theory help us explore black political economy and the politics of cultural production. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]