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As part of my curriculum at the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism, I conducted a longitudinal content analysis investigating hip-hop's postmodern identities through hybridized lyrical themes of race, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, and economic lifestyle. One half of my Master's thesis was formally presented as a poster for The 97th Annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference (AEJMC). The other half is the published technical study itself -"Hip-hop’s Tanning of a Postmodern America: a Longitudinal Content Analysis of Paradoxical Juxtapositions of Oppositional Identities Within Us Rap Song Lyrics, 1980-2013" Designer: Michael Felder