Desi Rap

Hip Hop and South Asian America

By: Ajay, DevOps Architect Nair (Editor), Murali Balaji (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 October 2008

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Desi Rap is a collection of essays from South Asian American activists, academics, and hip-hop artists that explores four main ideas: hip-hop as a means of expression of racial identity, class status, gender, sexuality, racism, and culture; the appropriation of Black racial identity by South Asian American consumers of hip-hop; the furthering of the discourse on race and ethnic identity in the United States through hip-hop; and the exploration of South Asian Americans'' use of hip-hop as a form of social protest. Ultimately, this volume is about broadening our horizons through hip-hop and embracing the South Asian American community''s polycultural legacy and future.

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Finally, a book that speaks to the full complexity of immigrant and Asian American lives through the Desi youth who are taking on the 'isms' and creating American culture through hip-hop solidarity. A must-read story about the future of America that is here today. -- Helen Zia, author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
South Asian Americans have created a unique, remix identity and culture at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation as revealed in Desi Rap, a collection of smart, engaging essays by some of the finest scholars and artists of the genre. Moreover, South Asian American hip-hop culture, the authors show, was conceived in resistance to oppression and mobilized a brown liberation movement. -- Gary Y. Okihiro

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Introduction	p. vii

My Hip-Hop Life	p. 3
Polyvalent Voices: Ethnic and Racialized Desi Hip-Hop	p. 17
Hip-Hop Agitprop	p. 33
B-Boys and Bass Girls: Sex, Style, and Mobility in Indian American Youth Culture	p. 41
How Hip-Hop Helped an Indian Girl Find Her Way Home	p. 71
Making Brown like Dat: South Asians and Hip-Hop	p. 79
Outcaste	p. 109

Spoken Word	p. 125
The Disjointed Artist	p. 127
Beats, Rhythm, Life	p. 137
Sounds from a Town I Love	p. 149
Words from the Battlefront	p. 155
An Ear to the Streets and a Vibe in the Basement	p. 163
Afterword	p. 171
Index	p. 177
About the Contributors	p. 187
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