Geoff Harkness, assistant professor of sociology, authored a chapter in the book “The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop” published by Cambridge University Press this summer.

Geoff Harkness, assistant professor of sociology at Morningside College, authored a chapter in the book “The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop” published by Cambridge University Press this summer.

The chapter, “Thirty Years of Rapsploitation,” examines how hip-hop culture was portrayed in American feature films from 1983-2013, and how these images reflect and comment upon larger issues of race, social class and gender.

Harkness came to Morningside College in the fall of 2014 after serving as a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. The University of Minnesota Press published his first book, “Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class.” Harkness has a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
 

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