September 2012
152 pages $24.95
978-1-927335-00-0
Click below to order at Brunswick Books:
http://brunswickbooks.ca/Mothering-in-Hip-Hop-Culture/
Demeter Press
Email: info@demeterpress.org
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction: Motherhood Between Invisibility and Trope
Maki Motapanyane
1
Chapter 1
“Mama Tried”:
Narratives of Good Mothering in Rap Music
Travis L. Gosa
22
Chapter 2
Mom Be Pimpin’:
Exploring the Mother-Whore Dichotomy in Hip-Hop
Nicholas Powers
36
Chapter 3
Making Room for “Dear Mama” in Rap Music
Erik Nielson
50
Chapter 4
Shine: A Queer Cosmology of Mothering
From Audre Lorde to MeShell Ndegeocello
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
66
Chapter 5
360 Degrees
Ruth Henry (MC OASIS)
86
Chapter 6
Seven Generations – Mothering, Indigeneity and Hip-Hop:
A Conversation with Lindsay “Eekwol” Knight
Shana L. Calixte
109
Chapter 7
“Mommy, I’m in Anomolies too!”: A Conversation
Between Two Members of an All-Female Hip-Hop Collective
Shantelena Mouzon (Helixx C. Armageddon) with Sharon Miller (Pri the Honeydark)
125
Chapter 8
Mothering the Northside:
Hip-Hop Mothers North of the 49th Parallel
Maki Motapanyane and Mark V. Campbell
140
Contributor Notes
175
