Murray Forman is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University.
Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University.
This newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically, the selections address the history of hip-hop, identity politics of the "hip-hop nation," debates of "street...
Published August 1st 2011 by Routledge
From headlines to street corners, the message resounds: Black men are in crisis. Politicians, preachers, and pundits routinely cast blame on those already ostracized within African American communities. But the crisis of black masculinity does not rest with "at-risk" youth of the hip-hop generation...
Published August 29th 2006 by Routledge
In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought and...
Published November 1st 2001 by Routledge
Published November 30th 1998 by Routledge
