Entries from June 2008

June 23, 2008

The Nightmare and The Dream: Reviews and Endorsements

 

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Book Review by Dan Tres Omi
In the last several years, there have been quite a few healthy tomes written about hip hop culture. Unfortunately, a large portion of that bunch tends to place hip hop culture outside of Black culture. Much of what is written about hip hop culture seems [...]

June 23, 2008

The Nightmare and The Dream: Reviews and Endorsements

 

To buy on Amazon click here
“The Nightmare and the Dream charts new ground in analyzing the impact of hip-hop on African-American political culture.  By going beyond a mere inquiry into the dynamics of hip-hop in the post-Civil Right era-a limiting perspective that a majority of contemporary hip-hop works fall prey to-Ross goes back in time to [...]