Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice is the first book-length ethnography of young people and their uses of hip

This ethnography studies young people and their use of hip hop culture. Drawing from historical work on hip hop and rap music, as well as four years of research

This volume is based on the premise that artistic performance is epistemological, a way of knowing self, culture, and other. The nine essays in this book, based

This is a remarkable set of linked essays on the African American male experience. Alexander picks a number of settings that highlight Black male interaction, s

This book discusses what it means to “perform the State,” what this action means in relation to the country of Iran and how these various performances are r