Abstract
In this piece, the author writes in two alternating voices: the voice of rap and the voice of standard academic discourse. The rap passages are rude, direct, even raunchy, while the prose passages are rendered in academic English. This dichotomy is intentional: Rap represents the voice of the people, the voice from below, the voice of those who live in neighborhoods filled with broken glass, an impatient, insurgent voice that bears little in common with the complex, jargon-filled sentences of most contemporary left discourse. The latter voice, in my view, has become too detached from that of our many constituents who worry about their children turning to gangs and drugs and dropping out of school, about police harassment, and where their next paycheck is coming from.
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
Si Se Puede, But Who Gets the Gravy?,
11
Mich. J. Race & L.
9
(2005).
Available at:
https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjrl/vol11/iss1/2