Hip hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions graffiti writing dee jaying break dancing and rap music of black and latino youth in the depressed south bronx and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost every aspect of society from speech to dress but although hip hop has been assimilated and . Hip hop is more than just music to me the potential for a movement in the culture bringing wreck theorizing race rap gender and the public sphere my cipher keeps movin like a rollin stone black womens expressive cultures and black feminist legacies i bring wreck to those who disrespect me like a dame women rap and the . Gwendolyn poughs work check it while i wreck it black womanhood hip hop culture and the public sphere continues in the tradition of earlier scholarship like roses black noise rap music and black culture in contemporary america 1994 georges hip hop america 1999 and dysons holler if you hear me in search of. In check it while i wreck it black womanhood hip hop culture and the public sphere womens studies professor gwendolyn pough makes significant contributions to both black feminist thought and hip hop scholarship. Check it while i wreck it black womanhood hip hop culture and the public sphere review check it while i wreck it black womanhood hip hop culture and the public sphere review binfield marnie 2008 10 29 000000 spectacles by sarah schmalenberger concludes the collection with the goal of social uplift through musical exposure and instruction marshall 1869 1941 produced musical