Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition

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Raps of Resistance: How Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole Reignited a Hip-Hop Tradition

By Jeremy C. McCool and Earl Hopkins

A persuasive case for the primacy of two singular artists.

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    A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South

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