Analysis Of Sammus Music

I first heard the rap artist and producer Sammus at a small music festival that the Don Giovanni record label organized in September of 2016. The song that immediately caught my attention and interest was “Mighty Morphing.” She rapped about stereotypes and the ability of one to be multi-dimensional and not limited to one identity. I enjoyed her music because her rapping differed from mainstream rap and any other rap I have listened to thus far, also she is a woman. Black feminist thought, hip hop feminism, and intersectionality theory possess differing and similar frameworks and together can be used in the analysis of Sammus’ music. I will discuss Black feminist thought with the work of Patricia Hill Collins; hip hop feminism with the

In the civil rights movement, it was difficult for Black women to attain leadership roles. In history classes across the country, the civil rights movement is synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr. and other male leaders and activists, but the role of Black women is overlooked and unconsidered when they made substantial contributions as activists. They organized people through churches. Additionally, the issues and concerns of Black women where not acknowledged and marginalized in both the black liberation movement and the women’s movement. They faced constant sexism in the liberation movement, for Black men would show disregard for their “humanity, autonomy and bodies” (Charleswell, 2014). During a meeting with the Black congress, a former black panther Elaine Brown faced misogyny as a Black woman and

The work must be produced by part of the lived experience of Black women, for it is their lived experience which has been overlooked and unacknowledged. Black women develop a certain standpoint, an Afrocentric woman consciousness, dependent on their lived experience when paired with self-reflection. A standpoint is the collective consciousness of marginalized groups through lived experience. It acts to legitimize the experiences of Black women, valuing those marginalized, and decenters the normative by means of focusing on those marginalized. The goal is to end oppression. There are also core themes which Black women relate to. The legacy of struggle refers to Black women’s struggle against both the institutions of racism and sexism, of white supremacy and male superiority. For EXAMPLE. However, Black women do not have all the same experiences. Their lived experiences can differ depending on their sexuality, class, ability, etc. For example, a Black lesbian woman’s experience will be qualitatively different from a heterosexual Black woman. Also, the environment and communities which Black women live in can shape their experiences. For example, a homosexual woman living in a community which is welcoming and accepting will have a different perspective from one living in a community where she is not accepted and instead