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Cable, Andrew. 1998. The Sean "Puffy" Combs Story: A Family Affair. New York: Ballantine Books.
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Chuck D, (aka Carlton Ridenhour), and Yusuf Jah. 1997. Fight the Power: Rap, Race and Reality. New York: Dell Publishing.
Conyers, Jr., James L., ed. 2001. African American Jazz and Rap: Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland.
Coombe, Rosemary J. 1998. The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law. Durham, North Carolina.
Cooper, Martha, and Henry Chalfant. 1984. Subway Art. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd.
Cooper, Carolyn. 1993. Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture. New York: Macmillan Press, Ltd.
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Datcher, Michael, and Kwame Alexander. 1997. Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur. Alexandria, VA.: Alexander Publishing Group.
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Davis, M. 1992. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage Books.
Dawsey, D. 1996. Living To Tell About it: Young Black Men in America Speak Their Peace. New York: Anchor Books.
De Genova, Nick. 1995. Gangster Rap and Nihilism in Black America. Social Text 43:89-132.
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Del Barco, Mandalit. 1996. Rap's Latino Sabor. In Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture, edited by W. E. Perkins. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press.
Delpit, Lisa and Theresa Perry, ed. 1998. The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African- American Children. Boston: Beacon.
Dimitriadis, Greg. 2001. Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice. New York: Peter Lang
Dolby, Nadine E. 2001. Constructing Race: Youth, Identity and Popular Culture in South Africa. Albany: State University Press of New York.
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Eble, Connie. 1996. Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language Among College Students. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Elikann, Peter. 1999. Superpredators: The Demonization of Our Children by the Law. New York: Insight Books.
Eminem, Marshall Mathers. 2000. Angry Blonde. New York: Regan Books.
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Erue, J., and J. Spady. 1991. Nation Conscious Rap. Brooklyn: PC International Press.
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Fab 5 Freddy, (aka Fred Braithwaite). 1992. Fresh Fly Flavor: Words and Phrases of the Hip-Hop Generation. Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press.
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Farrelly, Liz, David Recchia, Mike Dorrian, and Ric Blackshaw. 2001. Scrawl Too: More Dirt. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions.
Fernando, S. H. 1994. The New Beats: Exploring the Music, Culture, and Attitudes of Hip-Hop. New York: Anchor Books.
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Flores, Juan. 2000. From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York: Columbia University Press.
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Garner, Thurmon. 1983. Playing the Dozens: Folklore as Strategies for Living. Quarterly Journal of Speech 69:47-57.
Gates Jr, Henry Louis. 1988. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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George, Nelson. 1988. The Death of Rhythm and Blues. New York: Pantheon.
George, Nelson. 1992. Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture. New York: Harper Collins.
George, Nelson. 1998. Hip Hop America. New York: Viking.
George, Nelson. 1990. Stop the Violence: Overcoming Self-Destruction - Rap Speaks Out. New York: Pantheon Books.
Gilroy, Paul. 1993. Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures. London: Serpent's Tail.
Giroux, Henry A. 1997. Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Giroux, Henry A. 1994. Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.
Giroux, Henry A. 2000. Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children. New York: Palgrave.
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Hardy, James Earl. 1994. B-Boy Blues. Boston: Alyson Publications, Inc.
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Ice T, and Heide Siegmund. 1994. The Ice Opinion. New York: St. Martin's Press.
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Jackson, John L. 2001. Harlem World: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
James, Darius. 1995. That's Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
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Kitwana, Bakari. 2002. The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African- American Culture. New York: Basic Civitas Books.
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