ABSTRACT
Alice Randall, Kara Walker, and the publishers of The Source: Magazine of Hip Hop Music, Culture and Politics are three examples of a wave of late 20th century black cultural producers who strategically incorporated anti-black stereotypes into their work. Their cultural products have been highly popular and highly controversial largely due to their insistent representation of entrenched demeaning images and narratives of black identity. In vastly different ways, they each provided their audience with a novel way to engage, reconsider, and, ideally, discard longstanding stereotypical racial notions.
