Hip Hop Reader, The, A Longman Topics Reader

<p style="MARGIN: 0px">1. Back in the Day: Origins and Definitions of Hip Hop</p> <blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Cheryl L. Keyes, “The Roots and Stylistic Foundations of the Rap Music Tradition”</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Tricia Rose, “Rap Music”</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Juan Flores, “Puerto Rican and Proud, Boyee!: Rap Roots and Amnesia” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sasha Frere Jones, “Ghost’s World: A Wu Tang Member’s New Album”</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Shana, Kent “Illmatic: A Journey Into Nas’s State of Mind” (student essay) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> </blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">2. Crossing the Color Line: Hip Hop Negotiates the Complexities of Race</p> <blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">N.R. Kleinfield, “Guarding the Borders of the Hip-Hop Nation” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mark Anthony Neal, “Sold Out on Soul: The Corporate Annexation of Black Popular Music”</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">David R. Rodiger, “Elvis, Wiggers, and Crossing Over to Nonwhiteness”&nbsp; </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Michel Marriott, “Rap’s Embrace of ‘Nigger’ Fires Bitter Debate” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Touré, “The Hip-Hop Nation: Whose Is It?&nbsp; In the End Black Men Must Lead.”</p> </blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">3. Your Momma’s a Mack Daddy: Gender Construction in Hip Hop</p> <blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Marcyliena Morgan, “Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil: Race and Class in Popular Feminist Identity” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Kimberle Crenshaw, “Beyond Racism and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Michele Wallace, “When Black Feminism Faces the Music and the Music Is Rap” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Imani Perry, “The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto: Negotiating Spaces for Women” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">bell hooks, “The Coolness of Being Real” </p> </blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">4. Growing Up Gangsta: Gangsta Rap and the Politics of Identity</p> <blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Elizabeth Grant, “Gangsta Rap, the War on Drugs, and the Location of African-American Identity in Los Angeles 1988-92”</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Michael Eric Dyson, “Gangsta Rap and American Culture” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">John Pareles, “Should Ice Cube’s Voice Be Chilled?” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">bell hooks, “Gangsta Culture” &nbsp;</p> </blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">5. Mapping Rap: East Coast, West Coast, Third Coast, and Beyond</p> <blockquote> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Murray Forman, “‘Represent’: Race, Space and Place in Rap Music” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ayanna Parris, “Reaching Toward Hip-Hop’s Homeland: Hip Hop in Tanzania” (student essay)</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Kelefa Sanneh, “New Orleans Hip Hop is the Home of Gangsta Gumbo” </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Kiese Laymon, “Hip Hop Stole My Black Boy” </p> </blockquote>