Word: tillet
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...Salamishah Tillet, a professor of African-American literature at the University of Pennsylvania, does not see hip-hop as a problem in itself, but as an easy target for those concerned with the flaws of American society...
...reaction, and a reflection of what is going on,” Tillet says. “I think that if all the violence in the American culture gets reduced to hip-hop, that’s a problem. I think it’s easy to say that, ‘I’m not going to let my children listen to hip-hop,’ and have it be the scapegoat for all social ills...
...What gets on the radio is not hip-hop,” Tillet says. “It’s a part of hip-hop. The industry pushes certain artists and not others. There are a lot of artists that do really creative and insightful things. The artists...are a part of a machine, and the machine picks and chooses what it promotes...
Dance, poetry and song performances framed a photo slide show narrated by Tillet, detailing her healing process. Tillet said in the movie that she has been sexually assaulted three times—as a child, as a freshman in college and as a student abroad...
...Tillet also appeared in yesterday’s premiere of “Rape Is...,” a documentary which investigates rape in a cultural context and presents interviews with survivors. Eve Ensler of Vagina Monologues fame and Diane Rosenfeld, a fellow at the Harvard Law School, also appear in the documentary...