Date of Award
8-13-2019
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
African-American Studies
First Advisor
Sarita Davis
Second Advisor
Lia Bascomb
Third Advisor
Tiffany King
Abstract
Love & Hip-Hop (LHH) is known to be the highest rated reality TV show, producing more than 400,000 viewers on the season premiere of Love & Hip-Hop: Miami and continues to be one of the most talked about cable series across Facebook and Twitter (Etkin, 2018). Considering the demographic that LHH speaks to, 74% of women between the ages of 18-49 tune into LHH weekly and 81% of viewers are Black with an average media age viewership of 36 (Etkin, 2018). Additionally, this study explores the ways in which misogynoir is fluid in the performances of the characters on VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop (LHH) and how the characters and viewers claim agency and space through their involvement in the Hip-Hop industry and social media. This study will investigate the new phenomena of emerging hip-hop reality tv culture and its nuance in Black women’s involvement in Hip-Hop that defies respectability politics.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/14694544
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Adeerya J., "Spill The Tea Sis': Misogynoir's Problem And Black Women's Support, Narratives And Identities Found In Love & Hip-Hop's Reality Tv Franchise." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2019.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/14694544