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Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction "It's got to feel real but not be real" (Ice-T); Part 1 Hip-Hop Contexts; 1 Ice/Age: Experience, Achievement, and Transformations of an OG; 2 Ice-T at the Movies: The Hip-Hop Film Cycle and the On-Screen Gangsta in Flux; 3 Voices of the Gods: Definition, Diegesis, and Discourse in Ice-T's The Art of Rap; Part 2 Genre Hustling; 4 Crossing Police Lines: Body Count and the Politics of Intercultural Miscommunication; 5 Member of an Elite Squad: Ice-T and the Imagining of "Fin" Tutuola.;Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other. This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity.
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