This article explores the aesthetic and cultural connections between the hyper-masculinization inherent to hip hop culture (and particularly to gangsta rap), the pit bull dog breed, and dogfighting. Building on recent scholarship that has identified the racial and racist assumptions underlying the pit bull controversy, I provide further evidence and arguments on how the highly racialized and genderized hip hop discourses inoculate the pit bull body and suffuse it with multiple meanings reminiscent of America’s traumatic encounter with otherness. As a palimpsest that attests to both mainstream and countercultural explorations of racialized masculinities, the pit bull body is made to “perform” its role as both an agent and a victim within the nation’s compulsive need to control and monitor the “other.”

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斗牛犬和斗狗是嘻哈文化中男子气概的象征

本文探讨了嘻哈文化（尤其是黑帮说唱）固有的超男性化、斗牛犬品种和斗狗之间的美学和文化联系。基于最近确定了比特犬争议背后的种族和种族主义假设的学术研究，我提供了进一步的证据和论据，说明高度种族化和性别化的嘻哈话语如何接种比特犬的身体，并赋予它多种含义，让人想起美国的创伤遭遇与他人。作为证明对种族化男子气概的主流和反文化探索的翻版，斗牛犬的身体被制造为在国家控制和监视“他者”的强迫性需要中“履行”其作为代理人和受害者的角色。