Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
(Part of the Refiguring American Music Series and Refiguring American Music Series)
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Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young "hip hop desis" express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities in the United States and their diasporic sensibility as part of a global community of South Asians. She emphasizes the role of appropriation...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822347601
ISBN13:9780822347606
Release Date:August 2010
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"
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