Home with Hip Hop Feminism

Aisha S. Durham is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of South Florida. She is co-editor of Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology (2007) and Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method, and Policy (Peter Lang, 2007).

«All hip hop scholars inevitably situate themselves in hip hop as a starting point for their inquiry. Few do it as brilliantly as Aisha S. Durham. A major contribution to the field of hip hop studies, Home with Hip Hop Feminism masterfully broadens our understanding of the complexities of hip hop feminist thought.» (Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture)«Home with Hip Hop Feminism is the epitome of artistic and intellectual excellence, Aisha S. Durham writes with deep generosity, beautiful care, and an abiding love for black women whose experiences and visions of home include a wide range of expressions and relationships. This is a hip hop feminism that accounts for media, culture, and performance with the poetic perfection of a homegrown writer who remembers our mothers, icons, and homegirls.» (Ruth Nicole Brown author of Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist Pedagogy)

• Contents: Behind Beats and Rhymes: Working Class from a Hampton Roads Hip Hop Homeplace – The [News] Wire: My Life Script[ed] – Between Us: A Bio-Poem – (Re)membering the homegirl Textual Experience – From Hip Hop Queen to Hollywood’s Mama Morton(s): Latifah as the Sexual Un/desirable – «Single Ladies», Sasha Fierce, and Sexual Scripts in the Black Public Sphere.