It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation (38 page)

Supreme Court

Brown v. Board of Education

Dred Scott vs. Sandford

prison labor decision

Sweet Gee

synergy

tagging, competitive

TAKI

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
(hooks)

television,
see
mass media
Tempest, The

Temple University

Ph.D. in African-American studies

Terry, Jason

Texas Instruments

There Is Confusion
(Fauset)

Thiong’o, Ngugi wa

Thirteenth Amendment

Thomas, Justice Clarence

Thoreau, Henry David

time line of events shaping hip hop

1965

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

Time
magazine

Time Warner

“To Althea, From Prison” (Lovelace)

Tommy Boy Records

To the Break of Dawn
(Cobb)

Toys “R” Us

“Trapped,”

Truman, Harry S.

Tubman, Harriet

Tucker, C. Delores,

Ture, Kwame

Turner, Nat

Tuskegee Experiments

TWA

Live Crew

“Two Sets of Notes,”

ubuntu (“humanity toward others”)

Uhuru Movement

Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”)

unemployment

unemployment insurance

unions

United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

U.S. Public Health Service

Universal Declaration of Human

Rights

Universal Music Group

Universal Pictures

University of Michigan

urban crisis

Urban Institute

Urban Renewal

“U.S. Urban Youth Market: Targeting

the Trendsetters, The,”

USA/Harris polls

USA Today

US Organization

Van Peebles, Mario

Viacom

“Vicious Rap,”

Victoria’s Secret

Vietnam War

demonstrations against

Village Voice, The

violence

Black-on-Black

inner-city

numbness to

Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act of 1994

Vivendi

Volpe, Justin

voting rights, ex-convicts and

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Wacquant, Loic

Walker, Alice

Walker, David

Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Music Group

War on Drugs

Washington, D.C.

Watergate scandal

Waters, Maxine

Watts community

race rebellion in

Wayans, brothers

“We Are the Post-Hip-Hop Generation,”

welfare benefits

Welfare Poets

Wells, Reggie

We
Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
(hooks)

“We Shall Overcome,”

West, Cornel

West, Kanye

“What Ya Like Like,”

“When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling

Rain,”

Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
(King)

white audience for Black music

“White Lines, Don’t Do It,”

white supremacy

Wiesel, Elie

Wild Style
(film)

Wild Style
tour

Williams, Evelyn

Williams, Saul

Wilson, August

Winfrey, Oprah

Winley, Tanya “Sweet Tee,”

“Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Stayed on Freedom,”

Wolof language

“Wonderful World of Law and Order, The,”

Woodson, Carter G.

workers’ compensation

Work Opportunity and Personal

Responsibility Act of 1996

World War I

World War II

“World War III,”

Wray, Harmon

Wright, Richard

WRKS

Yo! MTV Raps

Zakia/4th & Broadway Records

Zangwill, Israel

Zayyad, Pawfiq

Zimbabwe

Zimring, Franklin

Zuberi, Dr. Tukufu

Zulu Nation