Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South

by Bettina L. Love

Book Overview

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013. Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak explores how young women navigate the space of Hip Hop music and culture to form ideas concerning race, body, class, inequality, and privilege. The thriving atmosphere of Atlanta, Georgia serves as the background...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433111918
• ISBN13: 9781433111914
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"