The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture

Chapter 1 Roots, Rhymes, and Rhizomes: an Introduction to Concepts of the Underground in Black Culture

Chapter 2 Verbal and Spatial Masks of the Underground

Chapter 3 The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture: The Deep Structure of Black Identity in American Literature

Chapter 4 Defining an Underground at the Intersections of Hip-Hop and African American Cultures

Chapter 5 A Cipher of the Underground in Black Literary Culture

Chapter 6 Tears for the Departed: See(k)ing a Black Visual Underground in Hip-Hop and African American Cultures

Chapter 7 The Depth of the Hole: Intertextuality and Tom Waits’s “Way Down in the Hole”

Chapter 8 Epilogue