Critical Essays on Hip Hop and the Study of Hip Hop

P. Khalil Saucier is Professor of Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. He is the author of Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity (Michigan State Press, 2015) and co-author of African Migrants, European Borders, and the Problem with Humanitarianism (Lexington Books).  He is also the editor and co-editor of various books.

• Chapter 1: “Doing the Knowledge:” A Critical Introduction.- Chapter 2: 'Peep the Technique’: Afro-Pessimism and Hip Hop’s ‘Turn Toward Blackness.- Chapter 3: TransCultural Flow and the Problem of the Cipher.- Chapter 4: Jay-Z’s afro-pessimism black femme(inism)s makes black all lives matter.- Chapter 5: Towards a [Black] Hip-Hop Aesthetic: Against Manifestations of the Neoliberal Universal.- Chapter 6: On the Dilemmas of MAN: Intersections Reconsidered.