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Informationen zum Autor Nitasha Tamar Sharma Klappentext "This bold, innovative critique of an under-explored area of hip hop culture significantly expands the field of hip hop scholarship. With this book, Nitasha Tamar Sharma makes an important contribution to our understanding of the complex ways that youth from various racial, ethnic, and national backgrounds are absorbing hip hop culture, respecting its cultural origins, and reshaping it in their own image."--Bakari Kitwana, author of "The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture" Zusammenfassung An ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Claiming Space, Making Race 1 1. Alternative Ethnics: Rotten Coconuts and Ethnic Hip Hop 37 2. Making Race: Desi Racial Identities, South Asian and Black Relations, and Racialized Hip Hop 88 3. Flipping the Gender Script: Gender and Sexuality in South Asian and Hip Hop America 138 4. The Appeal of Hip Hop, Ownership, and the Politics of Location 190 5. Sampling South Asians: Dual Flows of Appropriation and the Possibilities of Authenticity 234 Conclusion: Turning Thoughts into Action through the Politics of Identification 283 Notes 301 References 315 Index 335
