Joan Morgan Social Issues Raised by Rap and HipHop In our RWS 305W course, we read Joan Morgan’s excerpt “From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos” from her book When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost…
My Life as a
Hip-Hop Feminist. The purpose of this project is to analyze an author’s argument and her use of rhetoric, to educate and inform readers of issues raised by
this author, to learn the standards of a specific audience, and to critique the effectiveness of an author’s argument at reaching those readers. This will be
accomplished by constructing an understanding of the author’s argument. Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist, author, and a provocative cultural critic.
