{"id":1207,"date":"2015-10-28T15:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:43:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:43:09","slug":"the-hip-hop-obama-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2015\/10\/28\/the-hip-hop-obama-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hip Hop &#038; Obama Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2015\/10\/Cover-.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1206\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2015\/10\/Cover--199x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2015\/10\/Cover--199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2015\/10\/Cover-.jpeg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After three years of working on it, <a href=\"http:\/\/africana.cornell.edu\/people\/gosa.cfm\">Travis Gosa<\/a> (Cornell University) and I have published our first book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/the-hip-hop-and-obama-reader-9780199341818?cc=us&amp;lang=en\">The Hip Hop &amp; Obama Reader<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>on Oxford University Press. \u00a0This volume features original contributions from some of the country&#8217;s leading scholars and activists, who offer new perspectives on hip hop&#8217;s role in political mobilization, community organizing, and voter turnout during the Obama era and beyond. \u00a0They also consider the way Obama&#8217;s presidency\u00a0has (or hasn&#8217;t) been shaped by hip hop and, conversely, how hip hop has responded to Obama.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the feedback has been excellent, with Michael Eric Dyson calling the book &#8220;superb&#8221; and &#8220;brilliant&#8221; and Emmett Price describing it as &#8220;an unparagoned mixtape (in written form) of brilliance by an all-star cast of Hip Hop thought leaders, activists, and scholars.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years of working on it, Travis Gosa (Cornell University) and I have published our first book,\u00a0The Hip Hop &amp; Obama Reader,\u00a0on Oxford University Press. \u00a0This volume features original contributions from some of the country&#8217;s leading scholars and activists, who offer new perspectives on hip hop&#8217;s role in political mobilization, community organizing, and voter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2015\/10\/28\/the-hip-hop-obama-reader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hip Hop &#038; Obama Reader<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}