In this Issue

Table of Contents

Contemporary Sorrow Songs: Traces of Mourning, Lament, and Vulnerability in Hip Hop

Joseph Winters
pp. 9-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0012
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The Survivor’s Odyssey: K’naan’s The Dusty Foot Philosopher as a Modern Epic

Ana Sobral
pp. 21-36
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0018
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Intra- and Interlingual Translation in Blackamerican Muslim Hip Hop

Sara Hakeem Grewal
pp. 37-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0023
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“Maybe I’ll Be a Poet, Rapper”: Hip-Hop Feminism and Literary Aesthetics in Push

Brittney Cooper
pp. 55-69
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0028
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On the Real: Agency, Abuse, and Sexualized Violence in Rihanna’s “Russian Roulette”

Esther Jones
pp. 71-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0033
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If You Look in My Life: Love, Hip-Hop Soul, and Contemporary African American Womanhood

Treva B. Lindsey
pp. 87-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0004
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The Roots of “Wilding”: Black Literary Naturalism, the Language of Wilderness, and Hip Hop in the Central Park Jogger Rape

Stephen J. Mexal
pp. 101-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0010
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Melle Mel in the Megaplex: Postmodern Performance and the Hip-Hop “Real” in Krush Groove & Beat Street

Casey Hayman
pp. 117-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0016
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Hip_Hop Redux: A Plugin with Extensions

R. Scott Heath
pp. 133-144
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0021
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Safe word and: Stranger fruit

Kristiana Colón
pp. 145-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0026
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Story #4,112,011: A’ight Now and: Story #4,132,011: Idioms

Alice Nicholas
pp. 147-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0031
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For Bob Kaufman and: Sudan

Jonathan Moody
pp. 149-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0002
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Water

Christopher A. Williams
p. 151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0008
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The Branch of Thorns

Gail Dore
pp. 153-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0014
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Red Lights (Before the Closing of Kroger)

Curtis L. Crisler
p. 157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0019
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Plant, Sucker, Green, Dry

Eunice Hargett
p. 158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0024
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Inheritance: My father’s watches and: Gardening

Bro. Yao
pp. 159-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0029
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The Last Death of Reginald Baron III

Ryan Rising
pp. 161-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0000
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A note to hip hop

F. Geoffrey Johnson
pp. 167-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0005
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Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture by Jonathan Munby, and: If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls by Aimé J. Ellis (review)

Jared Sexton
pp. 171-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0011
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Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans by Matt Miller (review)

Matt Sakakeeny
pp. 174-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0017
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Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface by Anne Anlin Cheng (review)

Nancy P. Nenno
pp. 176-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0022
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Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities by Rychetta Watkins (review)

Daryl J. Maeda
pp. 178-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0027
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The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness by Kevin Young (review)

Howard Rambsy II
pp. 179-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0032
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How Racism Takes Place by George Lipsitz (review)

Terry Rowden
pp. 181-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0003
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Rap and Religion: Understanding the Gangsta’s God by Ebony Utley (review)

Joseph Winters
pp. 183-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0009
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Blackness in Opera ed. by Naomi Andre, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor (review)

Tom Riis
pp. 185-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0015
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein (review)

Kristen B. Proehl
pp. 187-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0020
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The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 by Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage (review)

Elizabeth S. Schlabach
pp. 189-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0025
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Decoded by Jay Z (review)

Demetrius Noble
pp. 191-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0030
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Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance by Marvin McAllister (review)

David Krasner
pp. 194-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0001
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Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire by Nicole A. Waligora-Davis (review)

John Munro
pp. 195-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0007
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Introduction: “Reading” Hip-Hop Discourse in the Twenty-First Century

Candice M. Jenkins
pp. 1-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0006
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Contributors

pp. 199-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2013.0013
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