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Contents

CHAPTER 1 From Chattel to Intellectual Property: Legal Foundations of African American Cultural Critique

CHAPTER 2 Critical Race Theory, Signifyin’, and Cultural Ownership

CHAPTER 3 Defining Hip-Hop Aesthetics

CHAPTER 4 Claiming Ownership in the Post-Civil Rights Era

CHAPTER 5 “Fair Use” and the Circulation of Racialized Texts

CHAPTER 6 “Transformative Uses”: Parody and Memory

CHAPTER 7 From Invisibility to Erasure? The Consequences of Hip-Hop Aesthetics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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