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...Here,” Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West ‘74 took the mic. While West delivered tight rhymes about “shaking yo’ ass” and “the plight of the underclass,” Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ‘53 and Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz engaged Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler in a freak sandwich. “I give all my ladies D’s” said Mansfield, bending his knees to align pelvises with Vendler...
...course, rap prompts the question of what qualifies as political music at all. By Chuck D's famous definition of hip-hop as the black CNN, bringing the news from the streets is itself a rebel dispatch. (Eminem does the same for the white underclass, when he manages to get past his fixations on his mom, Everlast and boy bands.) And the undying Tupac Shakur--named for a revolutionary and tied, through his mother and musical executor, to the Black Panther movement--is a far more political figure than his lyric sheets suggest. But popular hip-hop, P.-Diddy...
...signaled that any form of legalization should involve the undocumented workers paying a fine for having broken the law until now.) They're already an integral part of the U.S. economy, and trying to get rid of them would be harmful. And raising the status of the undocumented Mexican underclass could also help Bush grow his share of the increasingly-important Latino vote - an estimated 60 percent of U.S. Latinos are of Mexican origin...
...about a moto-madman who "hit a screamin? diesel that was California-bound"); and "Framed" (in which the narrator is picked up by cops, fingered by stool pigeon, railroaded by prosecuting attorney). Lumpen tragicomedies, they had an implicit warning for their black listeners: that life was unfair to the underclass. As Leiber says in the "What?d I Say" book: "A lot of this had to do with being a white kid?s take on a black person?s take on white society." And most of their songs were written for black groups, on the regional black labels, with little...
...Underclass students are bearing the brunt as well. Some firms have chosen to cancel their summer internship programs...