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Book SynopsisNegotiating identity in hip-hop culture
Trade Review "Miles White's From Jim Crow to Jay-Z drops squarely into the Bermuda Triangle of critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies with useful new approaches to studying rappers as ambivalent cultural exemplars of black masculine performance."--H-Net Review
"Invaluable. . . . Provides a clear example of how interdisciplinary approaches to African American music and culture can provide future scholars with the tools to examine the ever changing and diverse identities within the community."--
Black Grooves "White's generative approach and application are ground-breaking, innovative, and ultimately laudable."--
Popular Music and SocietyTable of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Shadow and Act: American Popular Music and the Absent Black Presence2 The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Racial Performance3 Affective Gestures: Hip-hop Aesthetics, Blackness, and the Literacy of Performance4 Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men, and the Rise of Gangsta Culture5 Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine DesireEpilogueAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
