... . 187p index afp ISBN 0814740146 , $ 22.95 ; ISBN 9780814740149 , $ 22.95 This book's title suggests it is another addition to the growing litera- ture on hip - hop . But this is not 550 November 2007 CHOICE Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Sometimes these roles shift as the singer ages, attitudes change, or new challenges on the pop scene arise; other times, the persona hardens into a shell-like mask that the performer struggles to escape. Oh Boy!
Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates.
This volume brings together ten key essays in the development of black feminism. The selections reflect the literary, social, and political critiques that mark this form of feminist and antiracist thought as unique and transformative.
Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity—avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellent, fixed and malleable.
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