Author's Keywords: Nation of Gods and Earths, Five Percenters, Hip-Hop, Gender, Masculinity, Black Nationalism	Convention Convention is an application service for managing large or small academic conferences, annual meetings, and other types of events! Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Mills, Edward. ""I Can be Your Sun, You Can be My Earth”: Masculinity and Gender in the Nation of Gods and Earths" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA, <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p36589_index.html>

Mills, E. ""I Can be Your Sun, You Can be My Earth”: Masculinity and Gender in the Nation of Gods and Earths" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hyatt Regency, Buffalo, New York USA <Not Available>. 2012-06-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p36589_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Paper Abstract: This paper examines the message of the Five Percenters through hip-hop music in order to get a deeper look at the complexities of gender in black nationalism with a specific focus on the masculinist tendencies of the Five Percenters and hip-hop as a whole. The main argument is that we can gain a better understanding of gender in hip-hop by exploring the themes in the lyrical content of “conscious” Islamic rappers, especially the Five Percenters. This approach allows us to decode and understand the complex rhetoric and metaphors endemic to Five Percenter ideology while simultaneously exposing the masculinist tendencies inherent in their lifestyle and ethos, as well as in hip-hop. Keeping in accordance with the argument that today’s rappers are carrying on the tradition of the black nationalists of the Black Arts Movement we must also grapple with gender and masculinity in black nationalism. It mirrors the patriarchal system present in broader American society in that manhood for black nationalists and rappers depends on control over the opposite sex (among other things). Finally, we may also use the patriarchy in hip-hop as a lens to view the co-optation of black nationalism by corporate America.

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