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  • For the Culture

    Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

    Series series Music and Social Justice
    For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social ... Read more

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  • Culture, Community, and Educational Success

    Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack

    Series series Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
    Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their cultural backgrounds. For them, culture matters. This book offers an opportunity for an anti ... Read more

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  • The Hip Hop Wars

    What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

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  • Women of Color and Feminism

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  • The Hip-Hop Generation

    Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture

    The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and ... Read more

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  • Pop Culture

    The Culture of Everyday Life

    While usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of material, economic, and political culture. The author begins by defining popular culture, outlining criticisms, and examining the impact of globalization on pop culture. She then explores mass media and popular culture (soap operas, Egyptian melodramas, Afro-Cuban rap music, and ... Read more

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  • The Art of Protest

    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

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    A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well ... Read more

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    Young Activists and the New Feminism

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  • Why White Kids Love Hip Hop

    Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

    Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out-of-date. Hip-hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart the culture of hip-hop to illuminate how race is being lived by young Americans. This topic is ripe, but untried, and Kitwana poses and answers a ... Read more

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