Listed below is a compilation of articles and books that could be potentially insightful for this course. All of these texts are readily available online via UF's library databases or elsewhere on the web through a quick Google search. While you are not required to use these texts in your research or writing, they may be useful to further investigate a specific topic related to hip-hop culture. If you find a relevant text not listed, please include the author and title (at the very least!) in a comment so it can be added to the bibliography.
Music and Aesthetics
Barnes, Sandra L. "Religion and Rap Music: An Analysis of Black Church Usage." Review of Religious Research 49.3 (2008).
Caldwell, David L. "Affiliating with Rap Music: Political Rap Or Gangsta Rap?" Novitas ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language) 2.1 (2008).
Chaney, Michael, Jason Lindquist. "The Gothic Aesthetics of Eminem." Gothic Studies. 9.1 (2007).
Forman, Murray. "'Represent': Race, Space and Place in Rap Music." Popular Music 19.1 (2000).
Glassner, Barry. "Rap Music and the Culture of Fear." The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer 21.1 (2003).
Kubrin, Charis E. ""I See Death Around the Corner": Nihilism in Rap Music." Sociological Perspectives 48.4 (2005).
"Manifestations of Afrocentricity in Rap Music." Howard Journal of Communications 13.1 (2002).
"Misogyny in Rap Music: A Content Analysis of Prevalence and Meanings." Men and Masculinities 12.1 (2009).
Oware, Matthew. "Brotherly Love: Homosociality and Black Masculinity in Gangsta Rap Music." Journal of African American Studies 15.1 (2011).
---. "(Un)Conscious (Popular) Underground: Restricted Cultural Production and Underground Rap Music." POETICS 42 (2014).
Peterson, James. ""Dead Prezence": Money and Mortal Themes in Hip Hop Culture." Callaloo 29.3 (2006).
---. "The Revenge of Emmett Till: Impudent Aesthetics and the Swagger Narratives of Hip-Hop Culture." African American Review 45.4 (2012).
Regina N Bradley. "Contextualizing Hip Hop Sonic Cool Pose in Late Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Rap Music." Current Musicology.93 (2012).
Robert Tinajero. "Hip Hop and Religion: Gangsta Rap's Christian Rhetoric." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 25.3 (2013).
Schneider, Christopher J. "Culture, Rap Music, “Bitch,” and the Development of the Censorship Frame." American Behavioral Scientist 55.1 (2011).
Tillet, Salamishah. "Strange Sampling: Nina Simone and Her Hip-Hop Children." American Quarterly. 66.1 (2014).
Woldu, Gail H. “The Kaleidoscope of Writing on Hip-Hop Culture.” Notes 67.1 (2010).
Race
Carrie Louise Sheffield. "Native American Hip-Hop and Historical Trauma." Studies in American Indian Literatures 23.3 (2011).
Bassil, Ryan. “The Grammys Aren’t Racist, They Just Don’t Know Much About Hip-Hop.” Noisey. Link.
Clay, Andreana. "Keepin' it Real: Black Youth, Hip-Hop Culture, and Black Identity." American Behavioral Scientist 46.10 (2003).
D’addario, Daniel. “Pop Music’s Race Problem: How White Artists Profit From Mocking Hip-Hop.” Salon. Link.
"Hip-Hop Vs. High Art: Notes on Race as Spectacle." Art Journal 63.2 (2004).
Kyles, Yohance. “Hip Hop’s Anger Over Macklemore’s Grammy Win is About Respect Not Race.” All Hip Hop. Link.
McFarland, Pancho. "Chicano Hip-Hop as Interethnic Contact Zone." Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 33.1 (2008).
Mcmurray, Anaya. "Hotep and Hip-Hop: Can Black Muslim Women be Down with Hip-Hop?1." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 8.1 (2008)
NinjaCate. “Solidarity is For Miley Cyrus: The Racial Implications of her VMA Performance.” Jezebel. Link.
Thomas, Shane. “Iggy Azalea and a Culture of Appropriation.” Media Diversified. Link.
Health
Katsidzira, A. and P. Moodley. “The Construction of Substance Abuse in Hip Hop Culture.” International Journal of Psychology. 47 (2012).
Travis Jr, Raphael. "Rap Music and the Empowerment of Today’s Youth: Evidence in Everyday Music Listening, Music Therapy, and Commercial Rap Music." Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 30.2 (2013).
Education & Knowledge
Au, Wayne. "Fresh Out of School: Rap Music's Discursive Battle with Education." The Journal of Negro Education 74.3 (2005).
Barrett, Catrice. "Engaging the Politics of Hip-Hop, Literacy, and Identity in the Classroom: A Multicultural Focus." Working Papers in Educational Linguistics 26.2 (2011).
Charity Marsh. "Hip Hop as Methodology: Ways of Knowing." Canadian Journal of Communication 37.1 (2012).
Christianakis, Mary. "Hybrid Texts: Fifth Graders, Rap Music,and Writing." Urban Education 46.5 (2011).
Gorlewski, Julie, and Brad J. Porfilio. “Revolutionizing Environmental Education through Indigenous Hip Hop Culture.” Canadian Journal of Environmental Education. 17 (2012).
Ibrahim, Awad El Karim M. "Becoming Black: Rap and Hip-Hop, Race, Gender, Identity, and the Politics of ESL Learning." TESOL Quarterly 33.3 (1999).
Jackson, B. and Sharon Anderson. “Hip Hop Culture Around the Globe: Implications for Teaching.” Black History Bulletin. 72.1 (2009).
Jenkins, Candice M. "Hip Hop and the Literary." African American Review 43.1 (2009).
Norton, Nadjwa E. L. "Young Children Manifest Spiritualities in their Hip-Hop Writing." Education and Urban Society 46.3 (2014).
Ronald Roach. "Decoding Hip-Hop's Cultural Impact." Black Issues in Higher Education 21.5 (2004)
Steven Netcoh. "Droppin' Knowledge on Race: Hip-Hop, White Adolescents, and Anti-Racism Education." Radical Teacher.97 (2013).
Stovall, David. "We can Relate: Hip-Hop Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and the Secondary Classroom." Urban Education 41.6 (2006).
Zenobia L Hikes. "Hip-Hop Viewed through the Prisms of Race and Gender." Black Issues in Higher Education 21.13 (2004).
Sports
Carby, Hazel V. “Race Men.” The New York Times. Link.
Sexuality & Gender Politics
“Deeper than Rap”: Gifted Males and their Relationship with Hip Hop Culture." Gifted Child Today 35.3 (2012).
Durham, Aisha, Brittney C. Cooper, and Susana M. Morris. "The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38.3 (2013)
Filipek, Claire. “Iggy Azalea: ‘Please Don’t Finger-Bang Me!’” Bust. Link.
Gupta-Carlson, Himanee. "Planet B-Girl: Community Building and Feminism in Hip-Hop." New Political Science 32.4 (2010).
Hunter, Margaret, and Kathleen Soto. "Women of Color in Hip Hop: The Pornographic Gaze." Race, Gender & Class 16.1-2 (2009).
Jacquelyn. “Sex in the Dirt - Fetishization of the Black Male.” ImpendingBloom. Link.
Jenkins, Toby S. "A Beautiful Mind: Black Male Intellectual Identity and Hip-Hop Culture." Journal of Black Studies 42.8 (2011).
Miller-Young, Mireille. "Hip-Hop Honeys and Da Hustlaz: Black Sexualities in the New Hip-Hop Pornography." Meridians 8.1 (2008).
Morgan, M. "Hip-Hop Women Shredding the Veil: Race and Class in Popular Feminist Identity." SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 104.3 (2005).
Muñoz, Maria Angeles Garcia-Carpintero, Rosane Gonçalves Nitschke, and Adriana Dutra Tholl. "Sexual Behavior in the Everyday Life of Adolescents and Young Adults from the Hip Hop Culture." Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem 23.1 (2014).
Patton, Stacey. "Who's Afraid of Black Sexuality?" The Chronicle of Higher Education. 59.1 (2012).
Rebollo‐Gil, Guillermo, and Amanda Moras. "Black Women and Black Men in Hip Hop Music: Misogyny, Violence and the Negotiation of (White‐Owned) Space." The Journal of Popular Culture 45.1 (2012).
Treva B. Lindsey. "If You Look in My Life: Love, Hip-Hop Soul, and Contemporary African American Womanhood." African American Review 46.1 (2013).
Cinema
Conrad, Kate, Travis L. Dixon, and Yuanyuan Zhang. "Controversial Rap Themes, Gender Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 53.1 (2009).
Ex, Kris. “Jay-Z’s Great Gatsby Soundtrack is a Failure.” Village Voice. Link.
LaBoskey, Sara. "Getting Off: Portrayals of Masculinity in Hip Hop Dance in Film." Dance Research Journal 33.2 (2001).
Muhammad, Kareem R. "Pearly Whites: Minstrelsy's Connection to Contemporary Rap Music." Race, Gender & Class 19.1-2 (2012).
Smith-Shomade, Beretta E. ""Rock-a-Bye, Baby!": Black Women Disrupting Gangs and Constructing Hip-Hop Gangsta Films." Cinema Journal 42.2 (2003).
Criminology
"Hip-Hop and Procedural Justice: Hip-Hop Artists’ Perceptions of Criminal Justice." Race and Justice 2.3 (2012).
Nielson, Erik. ""can't C Me": Surveillance and Rap Music." Journal of Black Studies 40.6 (2010).
----. "‘Here Come the Cops’: Policing the Resistance in Rap Music." International Journal of Cultural Studies 15.4 (2012).
Questlove. “Trayvon Martin and I Ain’t Shit.” Link.
Geographies & Locations
Baxter, VK, and P. Marina. "Cultural Meaning and Hip-Hop Fashion in the African-American Male Youth Subculture of New Orleans." JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES 11.2 (2008)
Harkness, Geoff. "Get on the Mic: Recording Studios as Symbolic Spaces in Rap Music." Journal of Popular Music Studies 26.1 (2014).
Ines, Maria. "A Nomad Journey: An Encounter with Hip-Hop and Gothic in Paris." Fermentum. 18.52 (2008).
Miller, Matt. "Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997-2007." Southern Spaces (2008).
Ntarangwi, Mwenda. "African Hip Hop and Politics of Change in an Era of Rapid Globalization." History Compass 8.12 (2010).
Ramsey, Guthrie P. "Muzing New Hoods, Making New Identities: Film, Hip-Hop Culture, and Jazz Music." Callaloo 25.1 (2002).
Rosenthal, Debra J. "Hoods and the Woods: Rap Music as Environmental Literature." Journal of Popular Culture 39.4 (2006).
Weems, Lisa. "Refuting 'Refugee Chic': Transnational Girl(hood)s and the Guerilla Pedagogy of M.I.A. Feminist Formations. 26.1 (2014).