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women and hip-hop and rap  

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  • Hip-hop is defined as a culture and lifestyle that originally emerged out of Black, Latino, and Caribbean working-class youth cultures of the postindustrial urban milieu of the South Bronx, New York, during the mid-1970s. This entry looks at the involvement of women as hip-hop and rap artists and discusses charges of misogyny and women's responses. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Hip-Hop and Rap, Women and]

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