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The Farming of Bones

Posted on February 4, 2010 - 3:11pm — 40728651

Author

First Name:

Edwidge

Last Name:

Danticat

Publish City:

New York

Publish Company:

Penguin Books

Year:

1999

ISSN/ISBN:

140280499

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones.

Pages:

310

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Farming-Bones-Edwidge-Danticat/dp/0140280499/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265313981&sr=1-1

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Breath, Eyes, Memory: A Novel

Posted on February 4, 2010 - 3:04pm — 40728651

Author

First Name:

Edwidge

Last Name:

Danticat

Publish City:

New York

Publish Company:

Vintage Books

Year:

1995

ISSN/ISBN:

37570504

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head.

Pages:

234

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Breath-Eyes-Memory-Oprahs-Book/dp/037570504X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265313533&sr=8-1

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Born to Use Mics

Posted on January 11, 2010 - 12:10pm — akadagathur

Author

First Name:

Michael Eric

Last Name:

Dyson

Collaborators:

Sohail Daulatzai

Subtitle:

Reading Nas's Illmatic

Publish City:

New York

Publish Company:

Basic Civitas Books

Year:

2010

ISSN/ISBN:

2147483647

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

At the age of nineteen, Nasir "Nas" Jones began recording tracks for his debut album and changed the world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as a masterpiece and has proven itself one of the most influential albums in hip-hop history.

Pages:

308

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Let's Get Free

Posted on January 4, 2010 - 1:12pm — AlvinBCarter3

Author

First Name:

Paul

Last Name:

Butler

Subtitle:

A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice

Publish City:

New York

Publish Company:

The New Press

Year:

2009

ISSN/ISBN:

1595583297

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who traded in his corporate law salary to fight the good fight.

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Get-Free-Hip-Hop-Justice/dp/1595583297/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262631656&sr=8-2

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The Gospel of Hip-Hop

Posted on November 18, 2009 - 4:34pm — sfayele

Author

First Name:

KRS-ONE

Subtitle:

First Instrument

Publish City:

Brooklyn

Publish Company:

Powerhouse Books

Year:

2009

ISSN/ISBN:

1576874974

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop imprint, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE.

Pages:

648

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Hip-Hop-First-Instrument/dp/1576874974/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258397347&sr=8-1

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Natural Disasters and Public Health

Posted on October 22, 2009 - 1:22pm — akadagathur

Author

First Name:

Virginia M.

Last Name:

Brennan

Subtitle:

Hurricans Katrina, Rita, and Wilma

Publish City:

Baltimore

Publish Company:

The John Hopkins University Press

Year:

2007

ISSN/ISBN:

80189199

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

The events of Hurricane Katrina have been seared into our collective consciousness, revealing a glaring discrepancy between the experiences of privileged whites and those of low-income blacks. The latter faced a scale of physical danger and mental trauma that the former largely escaped.

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Disasters-Public-Health-Hurricanes/dp/080189199X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256235447&sr=1-1

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Street Dreams and Hip-hop Barbershops

Posted on October 22, 2009 - 9:54am — AlvinBCarter3

Author

First Name:

Brad

Last Name:

Weiss

Subtitle:

Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania

Publish City:

Indiana

Publish Company:

Indiana University Press

Year:

2009

ISSN/ISBN:

253325945

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

For young men in urban Tanzania, barbershops are sites of the struggle to earn a living amid economic crisis. With names like Brooklyn Barber House and Boyz II Men, these workplaces are also nodes in an explosion of popular culture that appropriates images drawn from the global circulation of hip hop music, fashion, and celebrity.

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Dreams-Hip-Barbershops-Globalization/dp/0253220750

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The Tao of Wu

Posted on October 21, 2009 - 1:30pm — cfree412

Author

First Name:

RZA

Collaborators:

Chris Norris

Publish City:

New York

Publish Company:

Riverhead Books

Year:

2009

ISSN/ISBN:

1594488851

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

A unique book of wisdom and experience that reaches from the most violent slums of New York City to the highest planes of spiritual thought by the RZA, hip-hop's most exalted wise man.

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Wu-RZA/dp/1594488851

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East African Hip Hop

Posted on September 21, 2009 - 3:16pm — 40728651

Author

First Name:

Mwenda

Last Name:

Ntarangwi

Subtitle:

Youth, Culture, and Globalization

Publish City:

Chicago

Publish Company:

University of Illinois Press

Year:

2009

ISSN/ISBN:

252034570

Language:

English

Medium:

Textual

In this book, Mwenda Ntarangwi analyzes how young hip hop artists in the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania showcase the opportunities and challenges brought by the globalization of music.

Pages:

154

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/East-African-Hip-Hop-Globalization/dp/0252034570/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253563845&sr=8-1

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Daniel's RIde

Posted on September 16, 2009 - 12:44pm — sfayele

Author

First Name:

Michael

Last Name:

Perry

Collaborators:

Lee Ballard

Publish City:

San Francisco

Publish Company:

Free Will Press

Year:

2001

ISSN/ISBN:

867196416

Language:

English/Spanish

Medium:

Textual

A small Latino boy goes for a ride in big brother Hector's '63 Impala convertible "complete with spider hydraulics and gold wire wheels." Daniel snaps his fingers to the loud boom-boom of the radio, loves the look and even the smell of the car, and when he's spotted his peers as he zooms by, he knows he's "gonna be the coolest kid in school." But-big brother has a bigger plan i

Pages:

32

Amazon url:

http://www.amazon.com/Daniels-Ride-El-Paseo-Daniel/dp/0867196416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253122841&sr=8-1

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