Habitus of the Hood

Chris Richardson is a PhD candidate at the University of Western Ontario.Hans Skott-Myhre is associate professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University and the author of Youth and Subculture as Creative Force: Creating New Spaces for Radical Youth Work.

• Chapter 1: Introduction – Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre PART I: THE HOOD AS LIVED PRACTICE – Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre Chapter 2: Resistance to the Present: Dead Prez – Hans A. Skott-Myhre Chapter 3: Sì Siamo Italiani!: Ethnocultural Identity, Class Consciousness, and Anarchic Sensibilities in an Italian-Canadian Working-Class Enclave – Stephen L. Muzzatti Chapter 4: Precarious Life: On Dwelling, Mobility, and Artistic Intervention – Erin Morton and Sarah E.K. Smith Chapter 5: Living “The Strip”: Negotiating Neighborhood, Community, and Identity on Australia’s Gold Coast – Sarah Baker, Andy Bennett, and Patricia Wise Chapter 6: Habitus and Rethinking the Discourse of Youth Gangs, Crime, Violence, and Ghetto Communities – Tamari Kitossa Chapter 7: Activist Literacy in the Hood: Lessons for Youth and Urban Education – Pamela Hollander and Justin Hollander Chapter 8: The Girls from Compton Go to College – Donna J. Nicol and Jennifer A. Yee PART II: REPRESENTING THE HOOD IN MUSIC, FILM, AND ART – Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre Chapter 9: Making “Changes”: 2Pac, Nas, and the Habitus of the Hood – Chris Richardson Chapter 10: The Mobile Hood: Realness and the Rules of the Game – Thomas R. Britt Chapter 11: Hip Hop’s Cultural Relevancy in the Hood: Examining the “Subversive” in Urban School Curricula – Katie Sciurba Chapter 12: The Hood is Where the Heart is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film – Andrew de Waard Chapter 13: Do Not Believe the Hype: The Death and Resurrection of Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination – Nicola Mann Chapter 14: From the Bronx to Berlin: Hip-Hop Gra!ti and Spatial Reconfigurations of the Hood – David Drissel