Bibliography > In Focus: Women

Allegra, Donna.
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Anderson, Adrienne.
Word.: Rap, Politics and Feminism. Lincoln: Writers Club Press, 2003.

Arnold, Eric.
Compilation Spotlights Women Rocking Hip-Hop Mikes, Battling 'Vixen' Stereotypes. 2007.

B-Girl Be and Desdamona, DeAnna Cummings, Leah Nelson, Theresa Sweetland, Melisa Riviére.
B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Intermedia Arts & Emetrece Productions, 2006.

Babb, Tracie.
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Balton, Chris .
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Blackman, Toni.
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Brown, Marvelyn and Courtney E. Martin.
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Brown, Ruth Nicole.
Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-hop Feminist Pedagogy. Peter Lang Publishing, 2008.

Carby, Hazel.
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Cheney, Charise L.
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Cole, Johnnetta Betsch and Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
Gender Talk : The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities. New York: Ballantine, 2003.

D, Davey.
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Davis, Angela Y.
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DeBerry, Stephen.
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DeFrantz, Thomas.
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Dines, Gail and Humez, Jean .
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DJ Kaori.
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Gaunt, Kyra D.
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Greene, Jasmin S.
Beyond Money, Cars, and Women: Examining Black Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.

Hall, Marcella Runell.
Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change. Sister Outsider Entertainment, 2008.

Hernandez, Daisy and Rehman, Bushra.
Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism. Emeryville: Seal Press, 2002.

Hill Collins, Patricia.
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006.

Hopkinson, Natalie and Natalie Y. Moore.
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. San Francisco, California: Cleis Press, 2006.

Hurt, Byron.
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