The Underground Rhetoric: Laying Tracks for Social Justice.

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African American/African Diaspora

EnglishTalia FishbineSun, 09/10/2017 - 12:00 Hip-hop, as a music genre and culture, has often been subjugated to a space outside the purview of mainstream suburban, white America

The urgency in engaging with Scott’s work is foregrounded by problematic power dynamics in the U.S. that have made it ethically necessary to shine light on underground rhetoric that works to draw attention to, as well as correct, societal injustices. Understood, then, through the rhetorical framework provided by Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, and John Fritch in Rhetoric in Civic Life, Scott’s music and actions—evidenced in interviews, album covers, and lyrics, respectively—aid in the fight to pull the underground rhetoric above-ground—an endeavor that is correlative with an overarching aim to further the social justice advocacies established within the existing tradition of hip-hop.

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