Feminist intellectuals have long-studied hip hop’s theories and politics, especially regarding race, gender, sexuality, class, and other social, cultural, and political markers. Beyond simply locating oppression within hip hop culture—music, art, fashion, dance, film, and other elements—these intellectuals have examined the impetuses for and implications of these problematics. Additionally, they recognize hip hop’s resistive and generative qualities, especially how it has challenged the denigration of marginalized communities for over 40 years. This course examines this contention and contradiction, especially considering how these problems have been revised, resisted, rejected and reproduced within and outside of hip hop culture.