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Rivera, Raquel Z.         New York Ricans from the hip hop zone / Raquel Z. Rivera. . – 1st ed. . – New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003         xiv, 278 p. : : ill. ; ; 21 cm. . – ( New directions in Latino American cultures)         Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Enter the New York Ricans -- I. Historical narrative -- It's just begun : the 1970s and early 1980s ; Whose hip hop? the late 1980s and early 1990s ; Ghettocentricity, Blackness and pan-Latinidad : the mid-to-late 1990s -- II. Topics at the turn of the century -- Latin@s get hot and ghetto-tropical ; Butta pecan mamis ; Navigating Blackness and Latinidad through language ; Remembering Big Pun ; Between Blackness and Latinidad : a brief historical overview -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Appendix : interviews and articles -- Fat Joe ; La Bruja ; Angie Martinez ; Dynasty Rockers' Diana ; Hip hop meets bomba at the real wedding of the millenium ; Of artists and cuties ; Barrio's graffiti hall of fame.         ISBN9781403960443 :         1. Puerto Ricans – Social life and customs. – New York (State) – New York         1. Puerto Ricans – Ethnic identity. – New York (State) – New York         1. Puerto Ricans – Intellectual life. – New York (State) – New York         1. Hip-hop – New York (State) – New York.         1. African Americans – History. – New York (State) – New York         1. African Americans – Relations with Hispanic Americans. – New York (State) – New York         1. Ethnicity – New York (State) – New York.         1. New York (N.Y.) – Ethnic relations.         1. New York (N.Y.) – Race relations.         1. New York (N.Y.) – Intellectual life.