Miles WhiteFrom Jim Crow to Jay-Z
Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity
Formerly a professional musician and entertainment journalist, Miles White teaches at City University of Seattle in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Shadow and Act: American Popular Music and the Absent Black Presence
2 The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Racial
Performance
3 Affective Gestures: Hip-hop Aesthetics, Blackness, and the Literacy of
Performance
4 Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men, and the Rise of Gangsta Culture
5 Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine Desire
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
References
Index
