Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.

Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.

Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulner

This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. The word ratchet has entered into a wid

An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance. In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disput