Hip hop Desis
Subtitle: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a global race consciousness
By: Nitasha Tamar Sharma.
Series: Refiguring American music; Refiguring American music
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780822347415; 9780822347606
Subjects: South Asian Americans -- Music -- Social aspects; Rap (Music) -- Social aspects -- United States; Hip-hop -- Influence; South Asian Americans -- Race identity; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alternative ethnics : rotten coconuts and ethnic hip hop; title: Making race : Desi racial identities, South Asian and Black relations, and racialized hip hop; title: Flipping the gender script : gender and sexuality in South Asian and hip hop America; title: The appeal of hip hop, ownership, and the politics of location; title: Sampling South Asians : dual flows of appropriation and the possibilities of authenticity; title: Turning thoughts into action through the politics of identification.