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“True to the Game”: Straight Outta Compton's Affirmation of White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
Ist Teil von
Black camera : the newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives, 2017-04, Vol.8 (2), p.208-225
Ort / Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
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Quelle
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text (EBSCO)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
F. Gary Gray's Straight Outta Compton (2015) offers critical insights into the extent to which the logic of neoliberal economics shapes mainstream representations of hip-hop. The film's focus on its male protagonists' struggles against racism and poverty presents a rags-to-riches narrative that affirms hegemonic discourses about the American dream, thereby overlooking intersectional forms of systemic oppression that continue to shape black lives in and beyond the United States. Gray's decision to foreground N.W.A. hits such as “Fuck tha Police,” while glossing over the gender politics of songs (e.g., “A Bitch Is a Bitch”), allows one to consider the extent to which N.W.A. affirms hegemonic values. Straight Outta Compton validates bell hooks's contention that the “sexist, misogynist, patriarchal ways of thinking and behaving that are glorified in gangsta rap are a reflection of the prevailing values in our society, values created and sustained by white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.”1 The closing montage, which frames the protagonists as commercial success stories, unwittingly reveals that Dr. Dre and Ice Cube did stay true the game,2 one defined by white supremacist capitalist patriarchy—not Black Nationalism.