Annotated Bibliography Student Examples

From Josh Z., Josh M. and Chayse

Marcyliena Morgan's "Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil" claims the way that women have been portrayed in hip-hop as property in a society dominated by males. "Medusa, a prominent underground MC, describes herself as "One Bad Sista" who speaks with her ancestors by her side and contemplates their sacrifices and triumphs though the power (gangsta) and wisdom of her womb and vagina as she croons, "This pussy gangsta" (Morgan 112). The purpose for writing this essay is for the audience to understand how black women are trying to re-establish how they are portrayed in today's society. The intended audience could be for black male/female, but mainly for females, so they can understand the change of their role in societym and that they can become someone important. The audience should be able to trust her ethos as she is a black femlae as well. We could use this article to support our essay about the rise of black women in America such as Oprah and Tyra Banks.

From Josh H., Chris and Clayton

In Marcyliena Morgan's essay "Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil," she suggests that hip-hop has discriminated against black women. In order to show this, Morgan talks about the State of Missouri v. Celia case that tells how black women were a possession, not a free woman. Creating the image of how society portrays black women, this is diminished through the feminist and Black Power Movements. I intend to use Morgan's essay to show the struggles and rise of black women in today's hip-hop.

From Arion, Shana and Colton

In the story "Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil" written by Marcyliena Morgan, she is teaching types of courses contributing to hip-hop. She talks about the study of communication between different levels of class, race and gender. She started to talk about language and identity through the ethnography of the races she is explaining. The races that she is mostly focused on is the discourse and power of the Blacks/African American culture. She also talks about the edited language for the Creole race that she also is studying. The gender she goes into depth about all women and the hip-hop part of it. Examples include Angela Davis who is the artist Medusa, and Mother Africa embodied in that's known as Queen Latifah. We are using this because in the case of class, race and gender, we can look at the State of Missouri v. Celia. After trying to prevent mulitple rapes, she killed her master. In court, they ruled she was a slave, not a woman, so she was not protected.

From Marina, Lexi and Junior

In Morgan's article, she speaks of how African American women break the boundaries of a male dominated culture by speaking out against it. I intend to use this article to help explain what African American women are doing to make their voices heard through their music. Morgan states how black women are viewed as inferior, so they use their history to show their strength and worth. Since music plays a central role in their culture, they use lyrics they write in order to be heard by thousands.

From April, Jerann and Sierra

Marcyliena Morgan, author of "Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil," she asserts that young female African Americans are represented badly in hip-hop lyrics. Music today has many forms of African American women that speak of their culture and triumphs over slavery. In the case of the State of Missouri v. Celia, she is raped and left pregnant by her master. She kills him in self defense and receives a harsher punishment because she is a slave rather than a free woman. I intend to use this article to show how African American women overcame slavery through today's hip-hop lyrics.

From Jeriesha and Ashton

Morgan's thesis she is trying to get across is women have just as much right in the hip-hop world as anyone else. She supportsher theory by showing examples in the hip-hop industry of female artists such as Queen Latifah and Medusa. She also says "that hip-hop women share the same value of performance, hard, skillful, provocative and intelligent rhyming" (112). Target demographic of this article would be mainly young black hip-hop listeners ages 10 to 40. Due to more artists being black, it brings in more black listeners. Morgan is a very credible source and has researched her work well to give background on women and hip-hop. She makes a good connection with her audience because she uses examples, description and explanation well, so the reader can relate to what is happening. She also teaches courses on hip-hop as well as writing books and is the director of Stanford's hip-hop archive. We intend to use this source because it contains information regarding the State of Missouri v. Celia. Our argument is how Black women have had to work to get equal rights. This article was mainly about a slave who was raped by her master. She was on trial and lost because she was a piece of property. She ended up killing her master by standing up for herself.

From Shelby, Cristina and Greg

In the article "Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil" by Marcyliena Morgan, the main idea of the essay is how black female rappers stand out in a hip-hop world. Figures such as Dionne Warwick and C. Delores Tucker discouraged against thse artists because the violence and sexism in the lyrics. Most female MCs, for example Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, and Lauryn Hill "promote self respect" in women (112). most women use their lyrics as an opportunity to break away from the set standards of society. An example of this would be the court case State of Missouri v. Celia of 1855. Celia was raped repeatedly by her master and killed him. She ended up losing her case because she was a slave and not considered a woman (113). The reason I am using this article is because the women in hip-hop's main mission is to rise above the slave standarsd set many years ago. They are not just rappers, they are women.

From Kayde, Heather and Penny

Marcyliena Morgan, associate professor in the department of communication at Stanford, and author of "Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil: Race and Class in Popular Feminist Identity." She asserts and implies black women use their music to tell about their standing in society. She uses examples of female MCs because music plays the role of the major source of socialization and expression of their lives. She points out MCs in order to raise awareness of the progression of black women's rights. She is targeting the young black women who listen to rap to tell them you don't have to degrade yourself in order to be heard.

From Cliff and Kyle

Marcyliena Morgan, Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford. Teaches hip-hop, discourse, language and identity, race, class and gender; the ethnography of communications and representation of the media. "....scholars and many feminists, while highly critical of sexism and violence in hip-hop, argue that it is a product and representation of male-dominated culture and should be criticized within American culture and media representation." Basically she is speaking on the subject of the male dominated industry of hip-hop and how it degrades and demoralizes women. We are using the article to help show the violence and attitude of young African American men toward women.