TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bettina L. Love
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1058-1634
TI  - Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak
T2  - Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109069
N2  - 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 against which these youth consume Hip Hop, and the book examines how the city’s socially conservative politics, urban gentrification, race relations, Southern-flavored Hip Hop music and culture, and booming adult entertainment industry rest in their periphery. Intertwined within the girls’ exploration of Hip Hop and coming of age in Atlanta, the author shares her love for the culture, struggles of being a queer educator and a Black lesbian living and researching in the South, and reimagining Hip Hop pedagogy for urban learners.
KW  - inequality, Hip Hop culture, Gender studies, Racism, Black girls, music, culture, race, privilege
LA  - English
ER  -