Crank Dat Soulja Boy: Understanding Black Male Hip Hop Aspiration in Rural Mississippi

Author

Bruce O'Brian Foster

Date of Award

2011

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

African American Studies

First Advisor

Zandria Robinson

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

Aspirations and attainment are affected by a number of factors, including socioeconomic status, neighborhood setting, family influence, and peer socialization. While previous scholarship has focused on these factors, separately and collectively, this research will examine an understudied but prevalent dynamic; Hip-Hop aspirations. Specifically, this research focuses on the relationship between aspirations to r^ and the space/place dynamics of the rural South. Drawing on qualitative data collected in rural. Southern communities through ethnographic research methods, this research explores how Black male aspirations may manifest themselves in ways that have come to be perceived as alternative and oppositional.

Recommended Citation

Foster, Bruce O'Brian, "Crank Dat Soulja Boy: Understanding Black Male Hip Hop Aspiration in Rural Mississippi" (2011). Honors Theses. 2002.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2002

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