October 20 , 2005

featuring Yvonne Byone

Prepared by

Krista McDonald, Director
Christopher Galluzzo, Assistant Director

Rentschler Library
Miami University Hamilton

Yvonne Bynoe

Bynoe, Yvonne. Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip-Hop Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006 (forthcoming).

________. Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture. Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press: Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2004.

________. "How Ya' Like Me Now? Rap and Hip Hop Come of Age." In Race and Resistance: African Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002.

________. "Money, Power, and Respect: A Critique of the Business of Rap Music." In R&B, Rhythm and Business: The Political Economy of Black Music. New York: Akashic, 2002.

"Selected Essays from Yvonne Bynoe." Available from http://www.yvonnebynoe.com/essays.html

Women and Hip Hop

Cole, Johnnetta B., and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. "No Respect: Gender Politics and Hip-Hop." In Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.

Guevara, Nancy. "Women Writin' Rappin' Breakin'." In Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Pough, Gwendolyn D. Check it While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.

Rose, Tricia. Bad Sistas: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music. In Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.

Politics and Activism

Ards, Angela. Organizing the Hip-Hop Generation. In That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Cheney, Charise L. Ladies First?: Defining Manhood in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism. In Brothers Gonna Work it Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

________. Be True to the Game: Final Reflections on the Politics and Practices of the Hip-Hop Nation. In Brothers Gonna Work it Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

Ginwright, Shawn A. Hip-Hop Generation vs. Civil Rights Generation: The Challenge of Afrocentric Reform. In Black in School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth & the Promise of Hip-Hop Culture. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004.

Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. The Disappearance of Black Leadership. Los Angeles: Middle Passage Press, 2000.

Kitwana, Bakari. Coalition Building Across Race: Organizing the Hip-Hop Voting Bloc. In Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2005.

________. The Challenge of Rap Music from Cultural Movement to Political Power. In That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.

________. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. New York: Basic Civitas, 2002.

Lusane, Clarence. Rap, Race, and Politics. In That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Nelson, H. Viscount. The Rise and Fall of Modern Black Leadership. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2003.

Springer, Kimberly. Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women's Activism. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Radford-Hill, Sheila. Further to Fly: Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Hip Hop: History and Culture

Cepeda, Raquel. And it Don't Stop?: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years. New York: Faber and Faber, 2004.

Chang, Jeff. "Word Power: A Brief, Highly Opinionated History of Hip-Hop Journalism." In Pop Music and the Press. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Dyson, Michael Eric. "The Culture of Hip-Hop." In The Michael Eric Dyson Reader. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2004.

________. Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2001.

Forman, Murray, and Mark Anthony Neal. That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Gueraseva, Stacy. Def Jam, Inc.: Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's most Influential Hip Hop Label. New York: One World Ballantine, 2005.

Neate, Patrick. Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet. New York: Riverhead Books, 2004.

Perry, Imani. Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Pough, Gwendolyn D. “You Can’t See Me/You Betta Recognize: Using Rap to Bridge Gaps in the Classroom.” In Check it While I Wreck it: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.

Sexton, Adam. Rap on Rap: Straight-Up Talk on Hip-Hop Culture. New York: Delta, 1995.

Watkins, S. Craig. Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005.