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McCann writes in Contesting the mark of criminality : resistance and ideology in gangsta rap, 1988-1997 that, "While G-funk occupies a historical space far-removed from the fallen wood of the Rhineland province or the shipyards of early capitalist England, its fantasies of acquisition can still be read as resistant. The ability of a criminalized black subject to triumphantly lay claim to commodities and female bodies constitutes a bizarre articulation of the American Dream in which the descendants of slaves can declare 'This is mine,' or, more pointedly, 'I am taking your stuff.' I am not suggesting that claiming the female body as property is a gesture to be replicated as sound political practice, but do believe that any gesture by a criminalized subject to lay claim to that which a racist society has denied him is an affront to the political economy of race and crime in America."

To what extent is opposition to rap music motivated by the images of urban blacks engaging in conspicuous consumption, a reversal of traditional ethnic and class hierarchies?