Recent ProfessorsNot yet assignedRecent SemestersNo scheduled sections on recordClass SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteSociology 001 Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4C · IGETC Area 4G · CSU GE Area D7 · CSU GE Area D0DescriptionThis course will examine various topics associated with hip hop's evolution, including its socioeconomic roots, its cooption and appropriation, the construction of racial, class and gender identities, media representations, and media framing. The course will draw on a number of theoretical orientations that try to understand popular culture's influence in society. In addition, the course will examine popular culture as an important site where dominant ideology is negotiated and contested, specifically focusing on Black culture as protest and resistance. 