Palimpsest Volume #2, Issue #2: The Queerness of Hip Hop / The Hip Hop of Queerness (TOC)

Volume #2, Issue #2

Editor’s Introduction T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson-Myers
Guest Editor’s Introduction: “As Queer as Hip Hop” C. Riley Snorton
Forum
Hip Hop and the Black Ratchet Imagination L. H. Stallings
Hip Hop Spice Boyz Richard T. Rodríguez
Queer Hip Hop and its Dark Precursors Tavia Nyong’o
Hip Hop, Pleasure, and its Fulfillment Jayna Brown
Holler If You Can Hear Me Sharon P. Holland
Trafficking in Monikers: Jay-Z’s “Queer” Flow Mark Anthony Neal
Untitled Imani Perry
Boyfriends with Clits and Girlfriends with Dicks: Hip Hop’s Queer Future Rinaldo Walcott
Essays
Referential Sights and Slights C. Riley Snorton
Homolatent Masculinity & Hip Hop Culture Moya Bailey
Fat Mutha: Hip Hop’s Queer Corpulent Poetics Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
“Put Some Bass in Your Walk”: Notes on Queerness, Hip Hop, and the Spectacle of the Undoable Scott Poulson-Bryant
Book Nook: Reviews
Elisa Joy White, Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora: Dublin, New Orleans, Paris (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012) Review by Robert J. Topinka
Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012) Review by Emily A. Owens
Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011) Review by Kemi Adeyemi
Contributors