In this issue

What is the place of hip-hop culture in Latin American Cultural Studies? Who is producing, circulating, and consuming these cultural practices and how are researchers from around the world analyzing them? Is the Latin/o American hip-hop culture reproducing the globalized American pop culture or is it producing a particular transnationalized response…?

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Introduction

Locating Hip Hop's Place within Latin American Cultural Studies
Christopher Dennis
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The Periphery of the Periphery

Hip Hop is not Dead: The Emergence of Mara Salvatrucha Rap as a form of MS-13 Expressive Culture
Alejandro Jacky
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Indigenous Activism

Hip-hop Mapuche on the Araucanian Frontera
Jacob Rekedal
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Hip-Hop's Transformative Potential

A política do hip-hop nas favelas brasileiras
Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda
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Pop Speculation: Tracing Geography, Investment, and Identity in São Paulo's Hip Hop and Open Mic Scenes
Derek Pardue
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Gender and the Struggle Against Sexism

Projeto Yabas: Reflections on Hip Hop and Black Women's Self-making in Recife, Brazil
Viviane Santiago da Silva and Cory J. LaFevers
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The Literary and Aesthetics Elements

Rap: poesía plebeya
Mónica Bernabé
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Itinerarios líricos de la inclusión: el hip-hop y el rap en Colombia (primera parte)
María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli
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líricos de la inclusión: el hip-hop y el rap en Colombia (segunda parte)
María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli
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The Role of the Researcher

Between ► (Play) and « (Rewind): the Making of Son dos Alas
Melisa Rivière
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Represent Cuba: Havana Hip Hop Under the Lens
Geoff Baker
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Hip-Hop Frontiers

"Searching and searching we have come to find": Histories and Circulations of Hip Hop in Peru
Kyle E. Jones
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"(Who Discovered) America": Ozomatli and the Mestiz@; Rhetoric of Hip Hop
Cruz Medina
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"Reading" National Identity in Panama through Renato, a first Generation Panamanian reggae en español Artist
Sonja Stephenson Watson
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Ethnicity and Ethnic Rights

Black and Tan Realities: Chicanos in the Borderlands of the Hip-Hop Nation
Amanda Martinez-Morrison
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Tego Calderón: defendiendo lo negro desde Loíza
Francisco David Mesa Muñoz
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poetry/performance

noche cerrada
Ernesto Estrella Cózar
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su momento
Ernesto Estrella Cózar
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tertulia lunática
Ernesto Estrella Cózar
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Voz /Escucha /Poema: escuela de la decisión
Ernesto Estrella Cózar
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La voz en el poema
Ernesto Estrella Cózar
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visual culture

A Arte e a Rua – Etnografia audiovisual na periferia de São Paulo
Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji e Carolina Caffé
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reviews

Tango, uma desculpa para abraçar
Rafael Leopoldo
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Afro-Colombia's Hip-Hop Performs Intricate Global, Regional, National, and Local Identities
Stephen Kip Tobin
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call for papers

general call
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Latin American Documentary Language in the New Century: Impact and Perspectives
Claudia Ferman
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New Approaches to Transnational Migration and Cultural Change
Ignacio Corona and Abril Trigo
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