Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women

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index 167 2 Live Crew, xvi, 61–63, 120, 127 3D (TLC), 90 50 Cent, 24, 94, 150 106 & Park (TV show), 28, 119 Abercrombie and Fitch catalogs, 58 ACE National (Association of Club Executives National), 124 The Adult Nightclubs Guide (online directory), 123 Aerobic Striptease (music video), 121 African American men. See Black men African American Men & Brazilian Women message board, 46, 49 African American women. See Black women African Americans. See Blacks Against Our Will (Brownmiller), 55 Aguilera, Cristina, 126 “All About You” (Tupac Shakur), 23, 26 All the Women Are White, All the Men Are Black, But Some of Us Are Brave (Smith), xiv AllHipHop.com, 43, 102 Almost Famous (film), 86 American Sex Series (film), 60 America’s Next Top Model (TV show), xi, 28–29 Andrew, Tina, 17 AOL Black Voices (Web portal), 35 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 31 Arie, India, 28 Artest, Ron, 71 The Artificial White Man (Crouch), 7–8 As Nasty as They Want to Be (2 Live Crew), 61–63 Ascriptive mulattas, 27–28, 32, 36 Avocet Travel and Entertainment, 46, 50 Bad Boy Entertainment, 88 Bailey, Moya, 20 Baker, Josephine, 129 Ball Four (Bouton), 104 “Balla Baby” (Chingy), 138 The Banger Sisters (film), 86 Banks, Lloyd, “Groupie Love,” 15 Banks, Tyra, xi, 28, 29, 96 Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power (Eave), 145 Barnes, Dee, 59 Bates, Charletta, 129 Beals, Jennifer, 121 “Beautiful” (video), 40–42, 43, 51 Beauty culture, 27–49; in America, 30–31; ascriptive mulattas in, 27–28, 32, 36; beauty hierarchy, 35–36; “Black Is Beautiful,” 38; Beauty culture (continued) black men’s standard of beauty for black women, 37–38; black women’s beauty, 28–29; Brazilian women, 39–49; desire for the exotic, 37–39; ethnic ambiguity , 30–32; ethnic ambiguity (Generation E.A.), 30–32, 35– 36, 37, 39; feminism, 152; Generation A.M., 36; Generation B., 36; hip hop culture, 32–33, 36; ideal of feminine beauty in hip hop videos, 30, 37–39, 42; lightskinned black women, 37; mulattas , 39–44; plastic surgery, 34–35; “race” mixing, 30–31; spending on personal care products , 34–35; whiteness in, 31 The Beauty Myth (Wolf), xi, 31–32 Beg for Mercy (G-Unit), 85 Bell, Kylie, 107 Ben Hur (film), 125 Bend Hur (film), 125 Berle, Milton, 124 Berman, Jay, 24–25 Berry, Elizabeth Mendez, “Love Hurts: Rap’s Black Eye,” 98 Berry, Halle, 33, 121 “The Best of Both Worlds” (tour), 68 Best of Luke’s Freakshows (film), 60 BET (Black Entertainment Television ) network: 106 & Park (TV show), 28, 119; BET Uncut (TV show), 3, 92; Caribbean Rhythms (TV show), 24; lap dance at 2005 Awards presentation , 121; market penetration, 3, 26; music videos on, 25, 26, 28; Rap City (TV show), 28; “Rap It Up” campaign, 112; rise of Southern hip hop, 91 Beverly, Julia, 91–92, 96 Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles), 28, 37 “Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew” (Crenshaw), 63 Bgcaliber1, 47–48 Big Tigger, 101–103 Billboard (magazine), 119 “Bimbo eruptions,” paying for, 80 The Birth of a Nation (film), 8, 30–31 “Bitch,” xvii–xviii, 127 Bitch (magazine), xvii–xviii, 152 “Bitches & Sistas” (Jay-Z), 85 Black Collegian (magazine), 66 Black-Eyed Peas, 7 “Black Is Beautiful,” 38 Black Lily Tour, 16 Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Wallace), 66 “Black Marilyn Monroe,” 128 Black men: black masculinity, xvi, 51; black women, 59–60; Brazil, 44; Brazilian women, 46–49; Bryant to, 80; “dicksmithing” by, 88; earnings of collegeeducated , 88; feminism, 154; of the hip hop generation, 44, 51, 122, 143; “it ain’t no fun if my homies can’t have none” mentality , 79–80; “No!” to, 83; as poster boys for sexual impropriety , 70–71; standards of beauty for black women, 37–38; strip clubs, behavior in, 131–133, 141; West on, 59; white women, 38 Black Scholar (journal), 66 Black women: beauty of, 28–29; Index / 168 black female masculinity, 144– 145, 147; black feminism, 151– 151; black lesbian hip hop artists , 18–19; black men, 59–60; black strippers/exotic dancers, 121, 129–131, 136, 145–146; black women’s bodies in hip hop culture, 63, 66; earnings, 33; education attainment, 34; gender violence directed at, 81; HIV/AIDS cases among, 94; light-skinned black women, 37; marriage rate, 34; “new niggaz,” 144–145, 147; “No!”, 67; nonethnically ambiguous black women, 31–32; plastic surgery, 34–35; in...