Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture

White Negroes When Cornrows Were in Vogue ... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation

Lauren Michele Jackson

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man

Emmanuel Acho

Sweat the Technique

Rakim

Jay-Z Made in America

Michael Eric Dyson

Go Ahead in the Rain Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

Hanif Abdurraqib

Between the world and me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Original Gangstas

Ben Westhoff

Muslim Cool

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

Diary of a Madman

Brad "Scarface" Jordan

Who We Be The Colorization of America

Jeff Chang

Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Thug Life - Race, Gender and The Meaning of Hip Hop

Michael Alpert

Dirty South : OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop

Ben Westhoff

Understand Rap

William Buckholz

The Vulture

Gil Scott-Heron

Gang Leader for a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh

Let's Get Free A Hip-hop Theory of Justice

Paul Butler

Righteous dopefiend

Philippe Bourgois

To Die for the People

Huey Newton

Apologetics for a New Generation A Biblical and Culturally Relevant Approach to Talking About God

Sean McDowell

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

Molefi K. Asante

Gang Leader for a Day A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

The Five Percenters Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York

Michael Muhammad Knight

Gang Leader for a Day A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Hip Hop Revolution - The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey Armstrong

Know what I mean?

Michael Eric Dyson

When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events that Inspired and Influenced the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

Tayannah Lee McQuillar

Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

Jeff Chang

Holler If You Hear Me Searching for Tupac Shakur

Michael Eric Dyson

Nuthin' but a "G" Thang The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

Eithne Quinn

Why White Kids Love Hip-hop Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Bakari Kitwana

Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

Ronin Ro

Undestanding Theology Culture

Gordon Lynch

Open Mike

Michael Eric Dyson

Rebel for the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur

Armond White

Soul Babies Black Popular Culture and the Post-soul Aesthetic

Mark Anthony Neal

Buppies, B-boys, Baps, And Bohos

Nelson George

Bomb the Suburbs

William Upski Wimsatt

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Tricia Rose

Dark Ghetto Dilemmas of Social Power

Kenneth B. Clark