Africana Studies

Language and Culture

Young: Your Average NiggaYour Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity

Vershawn Ashanti Young

An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.

Campbell: Gettin' Our Groove OnGettin’ Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation

Kermit E. Campbell

A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop.

Spears: Race and IdeologyRace and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture

Edited by Arthur K. Spears

A collection of essays examining the idea of race, racism, and colorism as they are connected to ideology in language, symbolism, and popular culture.