Jeff Chang
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 546 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica,
hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a
generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era
defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop
crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's
worldview, and transformed American politics and culture.
But that epic story has never been told with this kind of
...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope--another four-letter word--is still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changed--and...
Publisher
1xRUN
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Expanded edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : photographs, illustrations, map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Hip hop first became a part of the mainstream music industry in the early 1980s, but the true origins of one of the most powerful pop-cultural influences of the twentieth century are in the spontaneous and progressive musical culture that grew out of tough Bronx neighborhoods of the 1970s. Writer and curator Johan Kugelberg has pulled together the scattered remains of a movement that never had its eye on posterity. The book includes a foreword by...
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
x, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Radical Hope is a collection of letters-to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged-written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists. Provocative and inspiring, Radical Hope offers readers a kaleidoscopic view of the love and courage needed to navigate this time of upheaval, uncertainty, and fear, in view of the recent US presidential...