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Must Reads for the Essential Hip-Hop Heads

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism. By Patricia Hill Collins
Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture and the Public Sphere. By Gwendolyn Pough
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. By Natalie Hopkinson & Natalie Y. Moore
From Black Power to Hip-Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism. By Patricia Hill Collins
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip-Hop. By Imani Perry
Representing: Hip_Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema. By S. Craig Watkins
That's the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Edited by Murray Forman & Mark Anthony Neal
The Black Public Sphere: A Public Culture Book. Edited by The Black Public Sphere Collective
The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-Hop and The Gods of New York. By Michael Muhammad Knight
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and The Crisis in African-American Culture. By B. Kitwana
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. Edited by Jeff Chang