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Cover
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Series
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: K.Dotting the American cultural landscape with black meaning
Part I Section.80 (2011)
1 Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80: Reagan-era blues
2 Can I be both? blackness and the negotiation of binary categories in Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80
3 Hol’ up: post-civil rights black theology within Kendrick Lamar’s Section.80 album
4 Singing experience in Section.80: Kendrick Lamar’s poetics of problems
Part II Good kid, m.A.A.d. city (2012)
5 The good, the m.A.A.d, and the holy: Kendrick Lamar’s meditations on sin and moral agency in the post-gangsta era
6 ‘Real is responsibility’: revelations in white through the filter of black realness on good kid, m.A.A.d. city
7 ‘Black meaning’ out of urban mud: good kid, m.A.A.d city as Compton griot-riff at the crossroads of climate-apocalypse?
8 Rap as Ragnarök: Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and the value of competition
Part III To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)
9 Can dead homies speak? the spirit and flesh of black meaning
10 Loving [you] is complicated: black self-love and affirmation in the rap music of Kendrick Lamar
11 From ‘blackness’ to afrofuture to ‘impasse’: the figura of the Jimi Hendrix/Richie Havens identity revolution as faintly evidenced by the work of Kendrick Lamar and more than a head nod to Lupe Fiasco
12 Beyond flight and containment: Kendrick Lamar, black study, and an ethics of the wound
Part IV DAMN. (2017)
13 “Real nigga conditions”: Kendrick Lamar, grotesque realism, and the open body
14 DAMNed to the earth: Kendrick Lamar, de/colonial violence, and earthbound salvation
15 Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. as an aesthetic genealogy
16 ‘I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar’s spiritual search, Hebrew Israelite religion, and the politics of a celebrity encounter
17 Damnation, identity, and truth: vocabularies of suffering in Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN.
18 Hebrew Israelite covenantal theology and Kendrick Lamar’s constructive project in DAMN.
Conclusion: KENosis: the meaning of Kendrick Lamar
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