Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

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

Lauren Michele Jackson

How music works

David Byrne

Full Dissidence: Notes From An Uneven Playing field

Howard Bryant

Sweat the Technique

Rakim

Dead Precedents

Roy Christopher

The Music in African American Fiction

Robert H. Cataliotti

So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

David Foster Wallace

Slumberland

Paul Beatty

Rap Year Book, The

Shea Serrano

Who We Be The Colorization of America

Jeff Chang

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

Nas's Illmatic

Matthew Gasteier

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

Paul Butler

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

Molefi K. Asante

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

Net, Blogs and Rock'n'Roll

David Jennings

Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

Jeff Chang

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

Bakari Kitwana

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

Eithne Quinn

Hip

John Leland

Time of our singing

Rap and Hip Hop: Examining Pop Culture

Jared Green

Open Mike

Michael Eric Dyson

Classic Material : The Hip-Hop Album Guide

Oliver. Wang

Rebel for the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur

Armond White

Yes yes y'all

Jim Fricke

Bomb the Suburbs

William Upski Wimsatt

Global Noise Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA

Tony Mitchell

Westsiders: Stories of Boys in the Hood

William Shaw

Between God and Gangsta Rap

Michael Eric Dyson

Infinite Jest A Novel

David Foster Wallace

The urban order : an introduction to cities, culture, and power

John R. Short

The white boy shuffle

Paul Beatty

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Tricia Rose