Event and Pop-Up Exhibit: Hip Hop and Masculinity
Mark Anthony Neal, PhD
The University of Houston Libraries and UH Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program will present “A Conversation About Hip Hop and Masculinity” with Professor Mark Anthony Neal of Duke University and Professor Anthony B. Pinn of Rice University on Thursday, October 27.
Along with the conversation between scholars, a pop-up exhibit of photographs from the Peter Beste and Lance Scott Walker Houston Rap Collection will be on display, with an introduction to the collection by archivist Julie Grob.
The event and exhibit will be held in the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Pavilion at the MD Anderson Library from 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
Professor Neal will also be the keynote speaker of the UH College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences John P. McGovern Endowed Lecture on the evening of October 27.
Neal is Professor of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University where he offers courses on Black Masculinity, Popular Culture, and Digital Humanities, including signature courses on Michael Jackson & the Black Performance Tradition, and The History of Hip-Hop, which he co-teaches with Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder (Patrick Douthit). He is the author of several books including What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1999), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002) and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities (2013). The 10th Anniversary edition of Neal’s New Black Man was published in February of 2015 by Routledge. Neal is co-editor of That’s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Routledge), now in its second edition.
Anthony B. Pinn, PhD
Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and professor of religion, and the founding director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) at Rice University. Pinn’s research interests include religion and culture; humanism; and hip hop culture. He is the author/editor of over 35 books, including Noise and Spirit: Rap Music’s Religious and Spiritual Sensibilities (2004), Introducing African American Religion (2012), The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology (2012), and the novel, The New Disciples (2015).