Introduction -- Bringing Wreck : Theorizing Race, Rap, Gender, and the Public Sphere -- My Cipher Keeps Movin' Like a Rollin' Stone : Black Women's Expressive Cultures and Black Feminist Legacies -- I Bring Wreck to Those Who Disrespect Me Kike a Dame : Women, Rap, and the Rhetoric of Wreck -- (Re) reconstructing Womanhood : Black Women's Narratives in Hip-Hop Culture -- Girls in the Hood and Other Ghetto Dramas : Representing Black Womanhood in Hip-Hop Cinema and Novels -- Hip-Hop Soul Mate? Hip-Hop Soul Divas and Rap Music : Critiquing the Love That Hate Produced -- You Can't See Me/You Betta Recognize : Using Rap to Bridge Gaps in the classroom

1. Popular culture -- United States
2. Rap (Music) -- History and criticism
3. Hip-hop -- United States
4. African American women -- Social conditions