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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book offers a compelling account of Filipino American DJ culture as a site for negotiating cultural authenticity, racial identity, and gender politics. Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. gives us a highly engaging and nuanced critique of what is at stake when young Filipino Americans enter the ‘Hip-hop nation’ and rethink Filipinoness in the post-Civil Rights era. It will be of interest to anyone grappling with questions of interracial solidarity, colorblindness, diasporic culture, and globalization that loom large today.—Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis
Filipinos Represent boldly asks what is at stake in defining the public meanings of hip-hop, identifying the stakes of hip-hop as an ethnic and racial practice that elucidates how Filipino American DJs experience race. Particularly compelling about Tiongson Jr.’s research are the interviews he provides with practitioners of the craft. Their narratives and his contextualization of what meanings accrue around these symbols and performative modes are rich and nuanced.—Anita Mannur, Miami University of Ohio
Table of ContentsContents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Claiming Hip-hop1. The African Americanization of Hip-hop2. The Racialization of DJ Culture3. "The Scratching is What Got Me Hooked": Filipino American DJS in the Bay Area4. "DJing as a Filipino Thing": Negotiating Questions of Race5. The Normative Boundaries of FilipinonessConclusion: Reimagining the Hip-hop Nation
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