ayanah moor
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Jack Wilson (left)
2007
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What do we make of the white rapper? In hip hop's move from margin to center, many have come along for the ride, challenging the very notion of cultural ownership. But is the white emcee's relationship to hip hop one of political resistance to the dominant white culture? Or now that hip hop IS mainstream does white engagement equate selling out? Can white youth love, participate in and respect black cultural production? Or does the movement's current global multi-billion dollar industry status suggest hip hop is no longer "a black thang?" (W)RAPPER by Ayanah Moor addresses the politics of whiteness, highlighting ideas of cultural code and consumerism. Moor's video works add to the discourse surrounding invisibility, white privilege and appropriation through an interrogation of representational and performative display.