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2. 'If You Don't Move Your Feet Then I Don''t Eat': Hip Hop and the Demand for Black Labor
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Birkhold,Matthew (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011 /Winter
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(2) : 303-321
- Notes:
- Building on Robin D. G. Kelley's (1998) argument that hip hop constitutes a form of play-labor for working-class black youth, this article argues that the creation of hip hop as a form of racialized play-labor in the 1970s constitutes an Afro-diasporic labor regime and can best be understood as such when located within a specific period of racial capitalism in the United States characterized by a low demand for formal black labor. Accordingly, this paper argues that the emergence of hip hop in the South Bronx can be explained by the way in which several social-political factors dictated by the needs of the world economy converged with the resistance and labor of black people in the United States and the Anglo-Caribbean in the late 1960s and early 1970s.