Santa Monica College is offering a lecture during Black History Month on two cultural phenomenons that generated a great deal of discussion: “gangsta rap” music and hip hop music.
Dr. Benjamin P. Bowser, a professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Social Services at California State University, East Bay, is the author of “Gangster Rap and Its Social Cost: Exploiting Hip Hop and Using Racial Stereotypes to Entertain America.” His lecture on Thursday, Feb. 28 at the college, beginning at 11:15 a.m., is entitled “Gangsta Rap vs. Hip Hop: The Immense and Lasting Impact on American Society.”
Bowser has done extensive research on the topic of hip hop and gangsta rap’s influence in American culture and the effects, positive and negative.
This will be his second visit to SMC for Black History Month.
Santa Monica College is located at 1900 Pico Blvd. in Santa Monica.
