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On The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah, and Urban Lit (Patreon)

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2020-12-20 21:40:22

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2020-12-21 01:20:40

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2026-06

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No Disrespect (Sister Souljah)

When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost (Joan Morgan)

How I Did It: Vickie Stringer, CEO Triple Crown Publications

Romancing the Hood

Ashley and JaQuavis Coleman: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

HATE, RAPE AND RAP

Rap and Race (1992 Newsweek Article)

Bill Clinton's Debt To Sister Souljah

Their Eyes Were Reading Smut

Urban fiction: words on the street

From the Streets To The Libraries

Critiques and Controversies of Street Literature: A Formidable Literary Genre

Souljah On Ice: Revisiting The Crisis of African American Gender Relations

The New Black Cultural Studies: Hip Hop Ghetto Lit, Feminism, Afro-Womanism, and Black Love

Ghetto Fabulous: Reading Black Adolescent Femininity in Contemporary Urban Street Fiction

Adolescent African American Girls as Engaged Readers: Challenging Stereotypical Images of Black Womanhood through Urban Fiction

A Hip Hop, Afro Feminist Aesthetic of Love: Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever

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The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah, and Urban Lit

I began working on this script about The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah, black literacy, and the history of black urban literature months ago so I was pleasantly surprised to learn that a sequel to this bestselling novel is dropping in 2021. In this video, I do a deep dive into the book and the woman who wrote it, while putting her narrative into generational context! I also discuss the early beginnings of urban literature (Claude McCay, Chester Himes, Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, etc) and discuss life in the 90s. Love the content? Support for $1/month on patreon.com/intelexualmedia Sources, essays, exclusive videos, a podcast, reading lists, and much more are available there.