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AuthorsBakari Kitwana (Moderator) [click for online profile]
Adam Mansbach (Panelist) [click for online profile]
Adam Mansbach's most recent book is the critically-acclaimed bestseller Angry Black White Boy, or The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, a satire about race, whiteness and hip hop that has already found its way onto numerous college and high school curricula. The author of two previous books, the novel Shackling Water and the poetry collection genius b-boy cynics getting weeded in the garden of delights, Mansbach is the founding editor of the pioneering '90s hip hop journal Elementary, an Artistic Consultant to Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies, and a contributor to publications including The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, JazzTimes and Wax Poetics. A hip hop artist whose debut album, Stand for Nothing, Fall for Anything, was recently released by Upshot Records, Mansbach is a frequent public lecturer on race, hip hop, literature, and popular culture. His recent appearances include Brown University, Columbia University, and The University of California at Berkeley, The University of Wisconsin at Madison, San Francisco State, The New School, The Harlem Book Fair, The Boston Globe Book Fair, The Living Word Festival, and Alameda Juvenile Hall. He is currently at work on a third novel, The End of the Jews, and is co-editing, with T Cooper, A Fictional History of the United States With Huge Chunks Missing, an anthology of original short stories to be published in August 2006. He lives in Berkeley, California. PRAISE FOR ANGRY BLACK WHITE BOY "Angry Black White Boy gives new meaning to the term black humor. A singularly jittery blend of urban wit and southern Gothic, it's a book of buoyant rhythm and dark material. A novel of ideas above all... The book covers expansive intellectual and geographical terrain, [and] its drive never falters. Mansbach gets us there by creating a tense world whose figures often are at cross-purposes. Angry Black White Boy, like the truest expressions of hip-hop, graffiti and jazz, is daring and original. It stings like its hero, Macon Detornay, a self-described scorpion of race." -- The Boston Globe "A remarkably successful remix of the traditional race novel. Mansbach monkey-wrenches the formula of the angry black man in the white man's world and incisively cuts to the heart of the issue of race in America today. [Angry Black White Boy] shows us where we as a culture have come from, the distance we have traveled, and how long the road ahead remains. It is first-rate satire grounded in the absurd notion that a simple 'I'm sorry' can start to make things better. The novel will make you laugh, cringe and read until the last page without knowing how it's going to end. It is difficult to imagine a more appropriate conclusion for the story of Macon Detornay, as the uncertainty of fiction dovetails with the uncertainty of reality." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "Mansbach is an able satirist of race issues& captures vividly the inhuman sadism inherent to racial violence." -- The New York Times Book Review Oliver Wang (Panelist)
Oliver Wang holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and specializes in popular culture, community formation and ethnic/racial identities. Since 1994, he has written nationally on music, culture, race and America. He is the editor and co-author of Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide (2003), and his writing has appeared in publications that include Vibe, The Village Voice, Wax Poetics, San Francisco Bay Guardian, XXL, The Source, L.A. Weekly, Mother Jones, and others. His commentary can also be heard on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. He currently is a contributing editor at Scratch and writes music columns for both MSN and Napster. Oliver also runs the renown MP3 blog, Soul-Sides.com, as well as the pop and politics blog, Poplicks.com. He lives and works out of San Francisco, CA.
Raquel Z. Rivera (Panelist)
Raquel Z. Rivera is a writer and professor in the Department of Sociology at Tufts University. A Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, she is presently conducting research and writing about the rise of reggaeton and also about the redefinition of "traditional" Caribbean music by young people, particularly in the case of Puerto Rican bomba and Dominican palos and salves. Her book New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2003 and is already in its fifth printing. Her academic articles on popular culture have been published in books and journals such as Boletin Musica (Casa de las Americas, 2004), Latina/Latino Popular Culture (New York University Press, 2002), Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (Columbia University Press, 2001), Revista de Ciencias Sociales (University of Puerto Rico, 1998), Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (Minnesota University Press, 1997) and Globalization and Survival in the Black Diaspora (State University of New York Press, 1997). Her articles, essays, poetry and short stories have been published in numerous magazines, newspapers, journals and websites, among these: Vibe, One World, Urban Latino Magazine, El Diario/La Prensa, Claridad, El Nuevo Dia, The San Juan Star, Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana, El Femur de Tu Padre and The Latino Artists Roundtable webpage. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, she has lived in New York City since 1994. "Raquel has done the unthinkable—she has triumphed in creating what hip hop DJs normally call a remix. She has remixed history and shed light on a valuable coexistence that is normally shunned by the media—namely, Boriquas represent." —BOBBITO GARCIA, DJ Cucumberslice "Smart and provocative, New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone is written with clarity and style by someone who knows both hip hop and Puerto Rican culture from the inside out. Not only a must read, it's a great read." —DEBORAH PACINI HERNANDEZ, Tufts University Ernie Paniccioli (Panelist) [click for online profile]
The author of Who Shot Ya, documenting thirty years of his Hip Hop photography was published in 2002 (Amistad Press), Ernie Paniccioli has lectured on hip-hop at colleges and universities across the country, including William and Mary, University of Denver, University of Wisconsin, New York University, Columbia University, and Wesleyan College. Along with Jamel Shabazz and Joe Conzo, he's the subject of the forthcoming film called "1 Love." Regarded by most to be the "Dean of Hip Hop Photographers," Paniccioli first made his foray into the culture in 1973 when he began capturing the ever-present graffiti art dominating New York City. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli has recorded the entire evolution of Hip Hop. From Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy (a popular Manhattan nightclub of the late 70's and early 1980s), to the athletic moves of the legendary Rock Steady Crew, to the fresh faces of Queen Latifah, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, and Lauren Hill. The Chief photographer for Word Up! Magazine from 1989, Ernie Paniccioli's work has also appeared in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Life, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vibe, Ebony, Life, The Source and XXL. His television credits include MTV and VH1. He was chosen by KRS1 to be the spokesman for The Temple Of Hip Hop at The United Nations at the Hip Hop Peace conference in May of 2001. He was also the moderator at the Meeting Of The Minds at the Zulu Nation 27th Anniversary. His photography was on display as part of the sixty-foot facade outside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for The Roots, Rhymes and Rage exhibit in 1999 and a featured part of that same exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2002. Some of his most recent shows include: "When Angels Speak of Love" Prosper Gallery April 2002 (forty five piece one man show) "100 Shots To The Dome" New York City Urban Experience Museum October 2002, 100 piece, one-man show, considered to be the largest one man photography show in New York City history. "Hip Hop Images" at VH1 Corporate Headquarters February 2003. (fifty-two piece one-man show.) "Saturday Night-Sunday Morning" Leica Gallery April 2003 "Who Shot Ya?" Apex Museum Atlanta Georgia May 2003 (fifty piece one man show) "Who Shot Ya?" Punch Gallery, San Francisco November 2003 (40 piece one man show). "Urban Blight" Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery May 2004 (60 piece one man show) Focusing on his 30 years of photographing Graffiti from Brooklyn to Brazil. "3 The Hard Way" Xpo Gallery Brooklyn May 13th-22nd, 2005. |
Bakari Kitwana is co-founder of the first ever National Hip-Hop Political Convention and the author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture (Basic Books, 2002). The former executive editor of The Source, Kitwana has been acknowledged as an expert on hip-hop politics by the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, The O'Reilly Factor and other leading news outlets, his writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Savoy, The Nation, the Village Voice, Black Book and other publications. Kitwana also writes a column on hip-hop and youth culture called "Do the Knowledge" for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and is a consultant on hip-hop for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The author of The Rap on Gangsta Rap (Third World Press, 1994), he's been a visiting scholar in the political science department at Kent State University and has lectured on hip-hop at colleges and universities across the country for the last decade, including Harvard University, New York University, Columbia University and Standford University. His new book Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes and the New Reality of Race in America (Basic Books, June 2005) is about race and hip-hop culture. Kitwana holds Masters degrees in English and Education from the University of Rochester.
