A. Shahid Stover
A. Shahid Stover (born December 2, 1973) is an African American writer, philosopher and social critic based in New York City. He is a former underground Hip Hop M.C. turned radical intellectual.
Freelance beginnings
Having studied History and Education at Coastal Carolina University and Journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, A. Shahid Stover began writing as a freelance reporter for The Carolina Times (one of the oldest independent Black newspapers in America) and has also written as a freelancer for the The Source magazine of Hip Hop music, culture and politics and Left Turn Magazine.
THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH
Stover is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH, which began as a progressive Hip Hop webzine and evolved into an online journal focused on radical theory, social critiques and human liberation.
HIP HOP INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE
HIP HOP INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE<ref name="Stover"/> is Stover's first work of philosophy/critical theory which focuses on cultivating Hip Hop aesthetics as Black cultural resistance to racist advanced capitalist oppression. Stover asserts that Hip Hop culture originated from and serves as a voice of the Black lumpenproletariat and further develops a critique which began with Frantz Fanon and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party who both recognized the lumpenproletariat as the social class with the most revolutionary potential.
Freelance beginnings
Having studied History and Education at Coastal Carolina University and Journalism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, A. Shahid Stover began writing as a freelance reporter for The Carolina Times (one of the oldest independent Black newspapers in America) and has also written as a freelancer for the The Source magazine of Hip Hop music, culture and politics and Left Turn Magazine.
THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH
Stover is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of THE BROTHERWISE DISPATCH, which began as a progressive Hip Hop webzine and evolved into an online journal focused on radical theory, social critiques and human liberation.
HIP HOP INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE
HIP HOP INTELLECTUAL RESISTANCE<ref name="Stover"/> is Stover's first work of philosophy/critical theory which focuses on cultivating Hip Hop aesthetics as Black cultural resistance to racist advanced capitalist oppression. Stover asserts that Hip Hop culture originated from and serves as a voice of the Black lumpenproletariat and further develops a critique which began with Frantz Fanon and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party who both recognized the lumpenproletariat as the social class with the most revolutionary potential.
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