Hip Hops Lil Sistas Speak by Bettina L. Love - 9781433111907

Hip Hops Lil Sistas SpeakNegotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South\nAuthor(s): Bettina L. Love\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc\nISBN-13: 9781433111907, 978-1433111907\nSynopsis\nThis book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.\n Through ethnographically informed interviews and observations conducted with six Black middle and high school girls, Hip Hops Lil 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 citys socially conservative politics, urban gentrification, race relations, Southern-flavored Hip Hop music and culture, and booming adult entertainment industry rest in their periphery. Inter.