Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-137) and index.
Contents
Hip Hop to Rap: from live performance to mediated narrative -- Popular culture, constructions of place, and the lives of urban youth -- Mobilizing history at a local community center: popular media and the construction of generational identity among African-American youth -- The symbolic mediation of identity in Black popular culture: the discursive life, death, and reburth of Tupac Shakur (coauthored with Geroge Kamberelis) -- Black youth, popular culture, and pedagogy: some conclusions.