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Hip hop Desis : South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a global race consciousness
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Title
Hip hop Desis : South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a global race consciousness / Nitasha Tamar Sharma.
ISBN
9780822347415 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822347415 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822347606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822347601 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xiv, 351 p. : ill. 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2010
Series
Refiguring American music
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Alternative ethnics : rotten coconuts and ethnic hip hop
Making race : Desi racial identities, South Asian and Black relations, and racialized hip hop
Flipping the gender script : gender and sexuality in South Asian and hip hop America
The appeal of hip hop, ownership, and the politics of location
Sampling South Asians : dual flows of appropriation and the possibilities of authenticity
Turning thoughts into action through the politics of identification.
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