"Where My Girls At?": Image of Female Hip Hop Artists and the Promotion of Female Identity

• In Event: Investigations into the Construction and Deployment of Race, Gender, and Sex in Civic Culture

Abstract

Hip Hop music has taken its place in popular culture. Because of hip hop’s widespread fame, artists within the industry have become candidates for role models and thus it is important to study their messages and the ideologies presented within them. This analysis uses ideological criticism to analyze the images promoted by female hip hop artists in their music and videos. It further considers what young African-American girls may be taking from these messages.

Authors

• Mikki Sain

• Kristina Drumheller, West Texas A&M Univ