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  • Rap and Religion

    Understanding the Gangsta's God

    by Ebony A. Utley ...
    This book provides an enlightening, representative account of how rappers talk about God in their lyrics—and why a sense of religion plays an intrinsic role within hip hop culture.Why is the battle between good and evil a recurring theme in rap lyrics? What role does the devil play in hip hop? What exactly does it mean when rappers wear a diamond-encrusted "Jesus" around their necks? Why do ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • He Cheated, She Cheated, We Cheated

    Women Speak About Infidelity

    by Ebony A. Utley ...
    Infidelity raises questions: Why do women stay with a cheater? Why do women cheat? Why do women become "the Other Woman"? How do past experiences with infidelity impact future relationships?Drawing on interviews with U.S. women of various ages, racial backgrounds, educational attainments, and sexual orientations, this insightful study examines their personal experiences of being cheated on, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Reimagining Black Masculinities

    Race, Gender, and Public Space

    by Mika'il Petin, Richard Craig, Isaih Dale, Larissa Hernandez, Marquese McFerguson, Derrick Robinson, Mark C. Hopson, Kenneth D. Brown, Gina Castle Bell0, Sakile K. Camara1, Rutledge M. Dennis2, Malcolm D. Gamble3, Aaron J. Griffen4, Carmen M. Lee5, Kimberly R. Moffitt6, Mark Anthony Neal7, Ebony A. Utley8, Alonzo M. Ward9, Tommy J. Curry0, Ronald L. Jackson II1 ...
    Series series Communicating Gender
    Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Black Speculative Arts Movement

    Black Futurity, Art+Design

    by Souleymane Ba, Iain Campbell, Enrique Carrion, Dariel Cobb, Tim Fielder, Sherese Francis, John Jennings, Jessi Jumanji, Sheeba Maya, Dike Okoro, Rasheeda Phillips0, Stacey Robinson1, Erik Steinskog2, Quentin VerCetty3, Amber Johnson4, Clinton R. Fluker6, Wriply Marie Bennet7, Natasha A. Kelly8, Ebony A. Utley9, tobias c. van Veen0, Reynaldo Anderson1, Susana M. Morris3, Toniesha L. Taylor4 ...
    The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

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  • The Hip Hop Wars

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

    by Tricia Rose ...
    How hip hop shapes our conversations about race -- and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black art in America-from Tupac to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kendrick Lamar, hip hop has long given voice to the African American experience. As scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip hop, in fact, has become one of the primary ways we talk about ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • If You Can Read This

    The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers

    by Jack Bowen ...
    A PICTURE MAY BE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS—BUT A FEW CHOICE WORDS CAN SPEAK VOLUMES!• If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren’t More People Happy?• Bottled Water Is for Suckers• Clones Are People Too• At Least the War on the Environment Is Going Well• Don’t Believe Everything You Think• The Revolution Will Be TweetedLong before blogs, tweets, and sound bites, people were telling the world how they felt in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Born to Use Mics

    Reading Nas's Illmatic

    Edited by Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail Daulatzai ...
    At the age of nineteen, Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album -- and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has proven one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history. With its close attention to beats and lyricism, and riveting first-person explorations of the isolation and desolation of urban poverty, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hipster Christianity

    When Church and Cool Collide

    by Brett McCracken ...
    Insider twentysomething Christian journalist Brett McCracken has grown up in the evangelical Christian subculture and observed the recent shift away from the "stained glass and steeples" old guard of traditional Christianity to a more unorthodox, stylized 21st-century church. This change raises a big issue for the church in our postmodern world: the question of cool. The question is whether or not ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Heretic

    A Memoir

    by Jeanna Kadlec ...
    A memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful--in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortable life ahead of her, in her God--but there was no denying the truth that lived under that conviction: she was queer and, if she wanted to survive, she would need to leave behind the church and every ... Read more

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  • Know What I Mean?

    Reflections on Hip-Hop

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Holler If You Hear Me

    Searching for Tupac Shakur

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    Acclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African American intellectual of his generation. Now Dyson turns his attention to one of the most enigmatic figures of the past decade: the slain hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur. Five years after his murder, Tupac remains a widely ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse

    A Book for Creators

    by M. Gungor ...
    "We are all creators. Whether or not we create is not up to us. We are human, and creating is what we do. Every interaction, movement, and decision is creativity at work. We are all artists. We all order creation around us into the world that we want to make."--Michael Gungor In The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse, Michael Gungor takes an uncompromising--and humorous--look at our creative selves ... Read more

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