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

In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performanc

“Reveals in fascinating detail the wild popularity, controversies, and complaints provoked by this film form . . . shap[ing] the media landscape of Africa.”