Table of Contents
Rap attack: an introduction /William Eric Perkins --Women writin' rappin' breakin' /Nancy Guevara --Rap's Latino saborMandalit del Barco --Puerto rocks: New York Ricans stake their claim /Juan Flores --Kickin' reality, kickin' ballistics: gangsta rap and postindustrial Los Angeles /Robin D. G. Kelley --Making the strong survive; the contours and contradictions of message rap /Ernest Allen --Who wants to see ten niggers play basketball? /Armond White --Hip hop /Robert Farris Thompson --Dance in hip hop culture /Katrina Hazzard-Donald --Hidden politics: discursive and institutional policing of rap music /Tricia Rose --Youth's global village: an epilogue /William Eric Perkins.