Female Hip Hop Activist. An intersectional intersection

Abstract

With the demise of twentieth-century social classes, the intersection of gender, race and class no longer seems to constitute a paradigm, but rather a construct with a variable structure in which, from time to time, one of the three constituent elements emerges as the driving force. This also has repercussions in the field of art and culture. In the context of Hip Hop, for example, African-American female rappers propose a female image in which the vindication of one's blackness is accompanied by an awareness of the fluidity of sexual identity and the need to break certain stereotypes for which political commitment must necessarily coincide with "sobriety" of behavior. As can be seen from their video clips in which frames that recall the Black Panthers or the more recent Black Lives Matter movement are symbolically inoculated, one can fight against racial and class discrimination without renouncing a politics of desire, which opens up interesting educational reflections.