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Eat Yo’ Beats: Ana Tijoux & The Political Power of Self-Examination
Ana Tijoux was born Anamaría Merino in 1977 in Paris, because her Chilean father and French mother were in exile from Pinochet’s brutal military dictatorship. When her mother’s job as a social worker put her in touch with hip-hop as an 8-year old, it was love. At 14, Ana and her family returned to Chile [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2011 under ethics, etymology, expatriate, exploitation, expression, fascism, fat beats, hip hop, hip hop culture, identity, identity politics, invisibility, latin america, latino, mc, old school, oppression, poetry, politics, self, self awareness, social construction, social inequality.
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There Is Not a Black America, or a White America… There's the United States of America
Here’s MC Eazeyo, who is a Friend, telling those of us who support Obama why we should be getting down to the voting booths, in addition to the fat beats by Rjd2 that back this track.
Posted: December 31st, 2007 under Black America, Rjd2, United States, White America, barack, candidate, fat beats, hip hop, obama, president, presidential, race, rap, video.
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