New York Ricans from the hip hop zone / Raquel Z. Rivera

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Contents: Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Enter the New York Ricans -- I. Historical narrative -- It's just begun : the 1970s and early 1980s ; Whose hip hop? the late 1980s and early 1990s ; Ghettocentricity, Blackness and pan-Latinidad : the mid-to-late 1990s -- II. Topics at the turn of the century -- Latin@s get hot and ghetto-tropical ; Butta pecan mamis ; Navigating Blackness and Latinidad through language ; Remembering Big Pun ; Between Blackness and Latinidad : a brief historical overview -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix : interviews and articles -- Fat Joe ; La Bruja ; Angie Martinez ; Dynasty Rockers' Diana ; Hip hop meets bomba at the real wedding of the millenium ; Of artists and cuties ; Barrio's graffiti hall of fame

Topic: Puerto Ricans--Social life and customs; Puerto Ricans--Ethnic identity; Puerto Ricans--Intellectual life; Hip-hop; African Americans--History; African Americans--Relations with Hispanic Americans; Ethnicity; Ethnic relations; Race relations; Intellectual life