Rough Riding

Adwoa Ntozake Onuora lectures in the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies. Anna Kasafi Perkins is Senior Programme Officer, Quality Assurance Unit, Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies, the University of the West Indies, Vice Chancellery, Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. Her publications include Justice as Equality: Michael Manley's Caribbean Theory of Justice and Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections (co-edited with Donald Chambers and Jacqueline Porter). Ajamu Nangwaya is a former lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is co-editor (with Michael Truscello) of Why Don't the People Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance and (with Kali Akuno) of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.

• Foreword: Dancehall Culture Upsetting Delicate Sensibilities viiCAROLYN COOPERPreface: Be Bold for Change: On Violence against Women and Girls ixVIVIENNE ( TANYA STEPHENS) STEPHENSONAcknowledgements xiiiPrologue: Rough Riding: Tanya Stephensand the Power of Music to Transform Society 1ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA, ANNA KASAFI PERKINS AND AJAMU NANGWAYAPart 1: Who Is Tanya?1 Tanya Stephens as a Black Feminist Organic Intellectual of Dancehall and Reggae 23AJAMU NANGWAYA2 The Tenderness of Tanya, Vulnerability of Vivienne: Reassessing Dancehall's Ruff Rider 49MELVILLE COOKE3 The Gangsta as Feminist in the Lyrics of Tanya Stephens 64TANYA BATSON-SAVAGEPart 2: "Still #1 with a #2 Pencil": Producing and Disseminating Knowledge4 "The Sound of My Tears": Tanya Stephens and the Meanings of Crying 79ANNA KASAFI PERKINS5 Tanya Stephens as Apostle of Critical Literacy 93ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA AND AJAMU NANGWAYA6 "Yuh Cyaan Hangle di Ride": Tanya Stephens's Critique of Societal Inefficiency 113ELSA CALLIARD-BURTON7 The Call to Resistance: The Weaponization of Language in the Music of Tanya Stephens 127NICOLE PLUMMERPart 3: "Put It on You": Tanya Stephens's Erotic Playbook8 A Lyrical Juxtaposition of Tanya Stephens and Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez 155ALPHA OBIKA9 Collision of RastafarI and the Erotic in the Work of Tanya Stephens 179SARA SULIMAN10 "It's a Pity Yuh Already Ave a Wife": The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Tanya Stephens's Civilized Man-Sharing 208CHAZELLE RHODEN11 Power and the Construction of the Erotic 221KAREN CARPENTEREpilogue: "A Bunch of Righteous Freaks": Tanya, God, Christians and the Bible 243ANNA KASAFI PERKINSAppendix 263Contributors 265