Word: intelligentsia
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However, black people need to honestly critique and revaluate the current status of hip hop culture, particularly focusing on the disconnect between the black intelligentsia, hip hop artists, and black politicians and entrepreneurs—the leaders of the hip hop generation. Currently, these leaders fail to engage one another in constructive dialogue, failing to recognize the potential power of the amalgamation of their ideas and resources...
...black intelligentsia is equipped with the intellectual capital to create and understand the complex political and theoretical ideas that govern public policy. However, they are not conversant in hip hop dialogue and are not familiar with its cultural dimensions (partly as a result of not being raised in hip hop culture). Hip hop artists serve as spokespersons of the urban generation, often exposing the effects of racial inequality and social injustice on the black experience. Yet, most artists are largely divorced from black history and are not in conversation with the most innovative thinkers of our time. Black politicians...
...voice, lightning flow, and impossibly obscure lyrics from any number of releases on legendary post-hop label Anticon (under aliases Deep Puddle Dynamics, cLOUDDEAD, Themselves with various permutations of labelmates), or from his solo collaborations with Aesop Rock, Prefuse 73, Revolutionary Ink and other heroes of the hip hop intelligentsia. His most recent project, Subtle, which features groundbreaking production from Jeffrey “Jel” Logan (Drucker’s high school pal and frequent collaborator) and live instrumentation courtesy of the remaining four members of the group, all old friends, tears down the fences between rock, electronica...
...scores and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, his favorite choice to read to school kids. So there will be chuckles of disbelief when his detractors hear that one of his latest passions is Natan Sharansky's The Case for Democracy and that when it comes to approval from the intelligentsia, the President is more needy than he lets on. Written by an Israeli Cabinet minister and former Soviet dissident, the book argues that true security in the Middle East and the world can come only with ballot boxes. The President has pressed it on his top advisers and is even proselytizing...
...Erlick said. “And especially with someone like Irma Flaquer, who was from a country where human rights violations were not being widely publicized. As a journalistic figure, she is not that well known outside of certain circles, and was part of a smaller intelligentsia than in somewhere like Argentina or Brazil...