Books

Author

First Name: 

David

Last Name: 

Toop

In its first edition published in 1984, Rap Attack documented the origins of hip-hop and its genesis in New York City's South Bronx. Many old-school hip-hop and electro pioneers, producers and entrepreneurs were interviewed at length, including Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash, Arthur Bake Paul Winley and Bobby Robinson.

http://www.justthink.org/curricula/flipping-the-script

Author

First Name: 

Marvin D.

Last Name: 

Sterling

In Babylon East, the anthropologist Marvin D. Sterling traces the history of the Japanese embrace of dancehall reggae and otherelements of Jamaican culture, including Rastafari, roots reggae, and dub music.

Author

First Name: 

Miriam

Last Name: 

Jimenez Roman

The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism amon African Americans.

Author

First Name: 

Wendy

Last Name: 

Fonarow

Britain is widely considered the cradle of independent music culture. This indepth study of the British independent music scene explores how the behavior of fans, artists, and music industry professionals produce a community with a specific aesthetic based on moral values.

Author

First Name: 

George J.

Last Name: 

Sanchez

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and  complex interactions between distinct cultures in United States history. In this pioneering study, George J.

Author

First Name: 

Paula M.

Last Name: 

Moya

In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insigh about our society, Moya presents a nuanced, universalist justification for identity-based work in ethnic studies.

Author

First Name: 

Alessandro

Last Name: 

Duranti

Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice.

Pages: 

522

Amazon url: 

http://www.amazon.com/Linguistic-Anthropology-Blackwell-Anthologies-Cultural/dp/1405126337/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278612519&sr=1-2

Copies available at the Hiphop Archive: 

2

Author

First Name: 

Prudence L.

Last Name: 

Carter

Keepin' It Real refutes the facile, convenient assumptions that minority students reject certain practices, such as excelling in school, and this thier own mobility, because they fear that peers will accuse them of forsaking their own racial and ethnic identities.

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks -writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual-writes about a new kind of education, education as a practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.