This exploration of African adaptations of global pop culture is “a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies”

From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American wom

Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany