Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-2721-6 • Hardback • October 2008 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
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Ajay Nair is Associate Vice Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Murali Balaji is a lecturer and doctoral fellow at the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter I
Chapter 3
Chapter 1. My Hip Hop Life
Chapter 4
Chapter 2. Polyvalent Voices: Ethnic and Racialized Desi Hip Hop
Chapter 5
Chapter 3. Hip Hop Agitprop
Chapter 6
Chapter 4. B-Boys and Bass Girls: Sex, Style, and Mobility in Indian American Youth Culture
Chapter 7
Chapter 5. How Hip Hop Helped an Indian Girl Find Her Way Home
Chapter 8
Chapter 6. Making Brown Like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop
Chapter 9
Chapter 7. Outcaste
Chapter 10
Chapter II
Chapter 11
Chapter 8. Spoken Word
Chapter 12
Chapter 9. The Disjointed Artist
Chapter 13
Chapter 10. Beats, Rhythm, Life
Chapter 14
Chapter 11. Sounds from a Town I Love
Chapter 15
Chapter 12. Words from the Battlefront
Chapter 16
Chapter 13. An Ear to the Streets and a Vibe in the Basement
Chapter 17 Afterword
Finally, a book that speaks to the full complexity of immigrant and Asian American lives through the Desi youth who are taking on the 'isms' and creating American culture through hip-hop solidarity. A must-read story about the future of America that is here today....
— Helen Zia
South Asian Americans have created a unique, remix identity and culture at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation as revealed in Desi Rap, a collection of smart, engaging essays by some of the finest scholars and artists ofthe genre. Moreover, South Asian American hip-hop culture, the authors show, was conceived in resistance to oppression and mobilized a brown liberation movement....
— Gary Y. Okihiro