Eithne Quinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eithne Quinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eithne |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinn |
| SIGNATURE | QUINN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4359-8017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Racist inferences and flawed data
Drill rap lyrics are used regularly by police and prosecutors as evidence against young Black working-class defendants in UK criminal cases. Though this practice is of mounting public concern, its discursive mechanisms remain poorly understood, shrouded by the police and courts. This article exposes and explains state interpretations of drill lyrics in the preparation of serious crime cases. It considers how the state uses violent rap lyrics to b…
Introduction to special issue
The state's coercive engagement with Black youth expressive culture, and rap music in particular, is a topic of mounting public and scholarly concern. Rap lyrics and videos made by defendants and codefendants are regularly used as evidence in court cases in ways that incite bias against young people in the dock. At the same time, the performance and circulation of rap music are increasingly monitored and constrained by the police and other bodies…
In Practice
I have been thinking a lot about environmental pedagogy in American studies, especially since I started teaching a third-year interdisciplinary course, Climate Change & Culture Wars, which focusses on the post-1970s US. I wanted to know more about how others are approaching the topic as we face up to looming climate and ecological collapse. University teachers and learners across disciplines are reckoning with it, but what's going on in American …
Measuring centrality in film narratives using dynamic character interaction networks
Occupy Wall Street, Racial Neoliberalism, and New York's Hip-Hop Moguls
This article explores the responses of three New York hip-hop entrepreneurs-Russell Simmons of Def Jam, Shawn Carter (Jay Z), and Curtis Jackson (50 Cent)-to the Occupy Wall Street mobilization of 2011. Occupy protested against extreme levels of inequality, declaring that it represented the 99 percent in opposition to the 1 percent financial elite. While these moguls were all within the 1 percent ranks, seen by many as emblematic of winner-takes-…
Black Talent and Conglomerate Hollywood
This article offers a comparative study of the strategies employed by Will Smith (together with his partner James Lassiter) and Tyler Perry as they surmounted racial barriers to become two of the most successful people in film. What emerges in both cases—despite very different institutional, production, and marketing strategies—is that race has strongly determined the career development of black top talent. Racial hierarchies have presented vario…
From oppositional readers to positional producers
This essay explores the production history and textual relations of Coffy (Jack Hill, 1973), an exploitation film starring Pam Grier about a black female vigilante which briefly topped Variety 's chart of highest grossing films in America. The relative simplicity of Coffy 's production context – a bottom-line exploitation picture from American International Pictures written and directed by white male hired-hand Jack Hill – combined with the heigh…
Closing Doors
Journal Article Closing Doors: Hollywood, Affirmative Action, and the Revitalization of Conservative Racial Politics Get access Eithne Quinn Eithne Quinn Eithne Quinn teaches American studies at the University of Manchester, England. Readers may contact Quinn at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 99, Issue 2, September 2012, Pages 466–491, htt…
"Tryin' to Get Over"
Super Fly was a landmark case of African American participation in major-release filmmaking. The film's narrative about Harlem cocaine dealers dramatized black business dynamism operating inside white-dominated power structures, and this spoke reflexively to the circumstances of the film's making. This essay offers a reappraisal of Super Fly and new perspectives on the blaxploitation cycle in light of post–civil rights opportunities and constrain…
Black British Cultural Studies and the Rap on Gangsta
The term gangsta rap started to gain currency in 1989. Its first American broadsheet appearance was in Los Angeles Times (Hilburn 1989), when controversial single Gangsta, Gangsta by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude) was in Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart. (1) The coinage denoted fresh and provocative rap sound--a cocktail of bass-driven and usually minor-key tracks, heightened first-person street gang rhymes, irreverent and humorous stories, and a…
Bishops
Occupy Wall Street, Racial Neoliberalism, and New York's Hip-Hop Moguls
This article explores the responses of three New York hip-hop entrepreneurs-Russell Simmons of Def Jam, Shawn Carter (Jay Z), and Curtis Jackson (50 Cent)-to the Occupy Wall Street mobilization of 2011. Occupy protested against extreme levels of inequality, declaring that it represented the 99 percent in opposition to the 1 percent financial elite. While these moguls were all within the 1 percent ranks, seen by many as emblematic of winner-takes-…
Closing Doors
Journal Article Closing Doors: Hollywood, Affirmative Action, and the Revitalization of Conservative Racial Politics Get access Eithne Quinn Eithne Quinn Eithne Quinn teaches American studies at the University of Manchester, England. Readers may contact Quinn at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 99, Issue 2, September 2012, Pages 466–491, htt…
Racist inferences and flawed data
Drill rap lyrics are used regularly by police and prosecutors as evidence against young Black working-class defendants in UK criminal cases. Though this practice is of mounting public concern, its discursive mechanisms remain poorly understood, shrouded by the police and courts. This article exposes and explains state interpretations of drill lyrics in the preparation of serious crime cases. It considers how the state uses violent rap lyrics to b…
Black Talent and Conglomerate Hollywood
This article offers a comparative study of the strategies employed by Will Smith (together with his partner James Lassiter) and Tyler Perry as they surmounted racial barriers to become two of the most successful people in film. What emerges in both cases—despite very different institutional, production, and marketing strategies—is that race has strongly determined the career development of black top talent. Racial hierarchies have presented vario…
From oppositional readers to positional producers
This essay explores the production history and textual relations of Coffy (Jack Hill, 1973), an exploitation film starring Pam Grier about a black female vigilante which briefly topped Variety 's chart of highest grossing films in America. The relative simplicity of Coffy 's production context – a bottom-line exploitation picture from American International Pictures written and directed by white male hired-hand Jack Hill – combined with the heigh…
Bishops
Black British Cultural Studies and the Rap on Gangsta
The term gangsta rap started to gain currency in 1989. Its first American broadsheet appearance was in Los Angeles Times (Hilburn 1989), when controversial single Gangsta, Gangsta by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude) was in Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart. (1) The coinage denoted fresh and provocative rap sound--a cocktail of bass-driven and usually minor-key tracks, heightened first-person street gang rhymes, irreverent and humorous stories, and a…
"Tryin' to Get Over"
Super Fly was a landmark case of African American participation in major-release filmmaking. The film's narrative about Harlem cocaine dealers dramatized black business dynamism operating inside white-dominated power structures, and this spoke reflexively to the circumstances of the film's making. This essay offers a reappraisal of Super Fly and new perspectives on the blaxploitation cycle in light of post–civil rights opportunities and constrain…
From oppositional readers to positional producers
This essay explores the production history and textual relations of Coffy (Jack Hill, 1973), an exploitation film starring Pam Grier about a black female vigilante which briefly topped Variety 's chart of highest grossing films in America. The relative simplicity of Coffy 's production context – a bottom-line exploitation picture from American International Pictures written and directed by white male hired-hand Jack Hill – combined with the heigh…
Closing Doors
Journal Article Closing Doors: Hollywood, Affirmative Action, and the Revitalization of Conservative Racial Politics Get access Eithne Quinn Eithne Quinn Eithne Quinn teaches American studies at the University of Manchester, England. Readers may contact Quinn at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 99, Issue 2, September 2012, Pages 466–491, htt…
Black Talent and Conglomerate Hollywood
This article offers a comparative study of the strategies employed by Will Smith (together with his partner James Lassiter) and Tyler Perry as they surmounted racial barriers to become two of the most successful people in film. What emerges in both cases—despite very different institutional, production, and marketing strategies—is that race has strongly determined the career development of black top talent. Racial hierarchies have presented vario…
Occupy Wall Street, Racial Neoliberalism, and New York's Hip-Hop Moguls
This article explores the responses of three New York hip-hop entrepreneurs-Russell Simmons of Def Jam, Shawn Carter (Jay Z), and Curtis Jackson (50 Cent)-to the Occupy Wall Street mobilization of 2011. Occupy protested against extreme levels of inequality, declaring that it represented the 99 percent in opposition to the 1 percent financial elite. While these moguls were all within the 1 percent ranks, seen by many as emblematic of winner-takes-…
Measuring centrality in film narratives using dynamic character interaction networks
In Practice
I have been thinking a lot about environmental pedagogy in American studies, especially since I started teaching a third-year interdisciplinary course, Climate Change & Culture Wars, which focusses on the post-1970s US. I wanted to know more about how others are approaching the topic as we face up to looming climate and ecological collapse. University teachers and learners across disciplines are reckoning with it, but what's going on in American …
Introduction to special issue
The state's coercive engagement with Black youth expressive culture, and rap music in particular, is a topic of mounting public and scholarly concern. Rap lyrics and videos made by defendants and codefendants are regularly used as evidence in court cases in ways that incite bias against young people in the dock. At the same time, the performance and circulation of rap music are increasingly monitored and constrained by the police and other bodies…
Racist inferences and flawed data
Drill rap lyrics are used regularly by police and prosecutors as evidence against young Black working-class defendants in UK criminal cases. Though this practice is of mounting public concern, its discursive mechanisms remain poorly understood, shrouded by the police and courts. This article exposes and explains state interpretations of drill lyrics in the preparation of serious crime cases. It considers how the state uses violent rap lyrics to b…
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