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A comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the relationship between hip-hop and politics in the era of Obama. --The Philadelphia Tribune

A comprehensive, scholarly analysis of the relationship between hip-hop and politics in the era of Obama. --<em>The Philadelphia Tribune</em> The book as a whole interweaves the good, the bad, and the ugly of the president's relationship with hip-hop and the pressing issues within communities using hip-hop as a political and social outlet. The essays are well written, and the eclectic topics...underscore the diversity of hip-hop. -<em>Choice</em> <em>The Hip Hop & Obama Reader</em> is a superb introduction to the complicated and contested relationship between our nation's first black president and the hip hop culture that played a key role in his election. This book admirably pushes past saccharine hagiography of an iconic black figure to probe the complex political, cultural, racial and gendered dimensions of hip hop in the Age of Obama. Gosa and Nielson have assembled a brilliant and wide ranging collection of essays that bring clarity and insight to hip hop's status during a pioneering presidency. --Michael Eric Dyson <em>The Hip Hop & Obama Reader</em> is an unparagoned mixtape (in written form) of brilliance by an all-star cast of Hip Hop thought leaders, activists and scholars. Beyond a thought-provokingly balanced interrogation of national and international politics, policy and protest, this is the most honest, comprehensive and intellectually-stimulating critical engagement of Hip Hop during the Age of Obama...ever. --Emmett G. Price III, editor of <em>The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational Divide</em>

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Travis L. Gosa is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University. He holds faculty appointments in Education and American Studies, and is affiliated with the Cornell Center for the Study of Inequality. Since 2008, he has served on the advisory board of Cornell's Hip Hop Collection, the largest archive on early hip hop culture in the United States. He teaches courses on hip hop culture, educational inequality, and African American families. His most recent work has been published with peer-reviewed journals Poetics, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Teacher's College Record, Popular Music and Society, and the Journal of American Culture. He also writes regularly for popular outlets, including The Root, FoxNews, Ebony, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Erik Nielson is Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond, where he teaches courses on African American literature, hip hop culture, and advanced writing. He received his M.A. in English from University College London and his Ph.D., also in English, from the University of Sheffield. He has lectured on African American literature and hip hop culture at major conferences in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, and he has published articles in several peer reviewed journals, including African American Review, MELUS, Race and Justice, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Journal of Popular Music Studies. He also writes regularly for popular outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and NPR and has been interviewed by a wide range of national media organizations. He is currently at work on his manuscript, Under Surveillance: Policing the Resistance in Hip Hop, for Manchester University Press.

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