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  Asians Can Dance ~ Check out: JabbaWockeeZ, Kaba Modern, and Planet B-Boy

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  L.S. Kim University of California, Santa Cruz

  April 29, 2008

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  dance. We feel the primal rhythm of a beat and begin to bounce our head almost by instinct; the deep ...
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  (Asian American?) Hip Hop: Cool Calm Pete’s “Black Friday”

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  Jane Park University of Oklahoma

  April 29, 2008

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  I thought I'd post it here to perhaps begin complicating what we mean by "Asian American" ...
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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)”

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  February 20, 2008

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  Transgression, Confession, and Ying Yang Twins’s “Wait (The Whisper Song)” Ying Yang Twins whiteness transgression taste race music masculinity hip hop guilty pleasures cultural capital affect Curator's Note Owning up to a guilty pleasure is a perfor ...
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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver

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  Greg Oguss University of Southern California

  March 20, 2008

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  Righteous Anger and the Fear of a Black Planet in Taxi Driver race masculinity music 1970s Taxi Driver Robert Deniro Martin Scorsese blaxploitation Melvin Van Peebles Richard Roundtree miscegenation baclash Joan Mellen Kris Kristofferson Rolling Stones Cu ...