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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812163003321

Titolo

Habitus of the hood / / edited by Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Intellect, 2012

ISBN

1-283-86363-4

1-84150-690-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RichardsonChris, MA.

Skott-MyhreHans Arthur

Disciplina

307.3362

Soggetti

African American neighborhoods

Inner cities

Neighborhoods - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Part I: The Hood As Lived Practice; Chapter 2: Resistance to the Present: Dead Prez; Chapter 3: Sì€ Siamo Italiani!: Ethnocultural Identity, Class Consciousness, and Anarchic Sensibilities in an Italian-Canadian Working-Class Enclave; Chapter 4: Precarious Life: On Dwelling, Mobility, and Artistic Intervention; Chapter 5: Living "The Strip": Negotiating Neighborhood, Community, and Identity on Australia's Gold Coast

Chapter 6: Habitus and Rethinking the Discourse of Youth Gangs, Crime, Violence, and Ghetto Communities Chapter 7: Activist Literacy in the Hood: Lessons for Youth and Urban Education; Chapter 8: The Girls from Compton Go to College; Part II: Representing the Hood in Music, Film, and Art; Chapter 9: Making ""Changes"": 2Pac, Nas, and the Habitus of the Hood; Chapter 10: The Mobile Hood: Realness and the Rules of the Game; Chapter 11: Hip Hop's Cultural Relevancy in the Hood: Examining the ""Subversive"" in Urban School Curricula

Chapter 12: The Hood is Where the Heart is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film Chapter 13: Do Not Believe the Hype: The Death and Resurrection of Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination;



Chapter 14: From the Bronx to Berlin: Hip-Hop GraBti and Spatial Reconfigurations of the Hood; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Since the 1990's, popular culture the world over has frequently looked to the 'hood for inspiration, whether in music, film, or television. Habitus of the