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Atlanta’s Pink Trap House: Reimagining the Black Public Sphere as an Aesthetic Community
- Theory & Event
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 24, Number 2, April 2021
- pp. 434-455
- 10.1353/tae.2021.0021
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Abstract:
Rapper 2 Chainz’s Pink Trap House, a bubble-gum pink home created as a symbolic representation of drug-infested ghettos, became an Atlanta landmark in summer of 2017, drawing in hip-hop enthusiasts from across the world. By addressing an audience in an aesthetic performance that disrupted white space, the Pink Trap House is a representative anecdote, synecdotal of the larger production of the Black aesthetic community. Using critical rhetorical analysis, this essay develops the concept of Black aesthetic community as a social space produced by the Black public in response to the destruction of the Black private sphere.