This is a group for people who like to read and write about hip hop culture.

When it comes to fiction, this means anything from the Black Artemis novels to Adam Mansbach's ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY. It can mean a street lit if the storyline involves hip hop. Or perhaps we can discuss why novels about hustlers and dealers are often called...more »

This is a group for people who like to read and write about hip hop culture.

When it comes to fiction, this means anything from the Black Artemis novels to Adam Mansbach's ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY. It can mean a street lit if the storyline involves hip hop. Or perhaps we can discuss why novels about hustlers and dealers are often called "hip hop fiction."

This is also a place to discuss nonfiction books about celebrity personalities and scholarly work by thinkers from Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, Bakari Kitwana, Todd Boyd, Joan Morgan, Gwendolyn Pough, Jeff Chang and more. in fact, my hope is that we're more likely to discuss books like HOMEGIRLZ MAKE SOME NOISE and WHEN CHICKENHEADS COME HOME TO ROOST than we are anything written by Karrine Steffans or Carmen Bryant (although I'm not going to exclude that.)

Basically, this is a group for authors and readers who love to learn and dialogue about pop culture from a political perspective, especially that complex and contradictory phenomenon called hip hop.

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