Chapter 1: Introduction - Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre PART I: THE HOOD AS LIVED PRACTICE - Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre Chapter 2: Resistance to the Present: Dead Prez - Hans A. Skott-Myhre Chapter 3: Si Siamo Italiani!: Ethnocultural Identity, Class Consciousness, and Anarchic Sensibilities in an Italian-Canadian Working-Class Enclave - Stephen L. Muzzatti Chapter 4: Precarious Life: On Dwelling, Mobility, and Artistic Intervention - Erin Morton and Sarah E.K. Smith Chapter 5: Living The Strip: Negotiating Neighborhood, Community, and Identity on Australia's Gold Coast - Sarah Baker, Andy Bennett, and Patricia Wise Chapter 6: Habitus and Rethinking the Discourse of Youth Gangs, Crime, Violence, and Ghetto Communities - Tamari Kitossa Chapter 7: Activist Literacy in the Hood: Lessons for Youth and Urban Education - Pamela Hollander and Justin Hollander Chapter 8: The Girls from Compton Go to College - Donna J. Nicol and Jennifer A. Yee PART II: REPRESENTING THE HOOD IN MUSIC, FILM, AND ART - Chris Richardson and Hans A. Skott-Myhre Chapter 9: Making Changes: 2Pac, Nas, and the Habitus of the Hood - Chris Richardson Chapter 10: The Mobile Hood: Realness and the Rules of the Game - Thomas R. Britt Chapter 11: Hip Hop's Cultural Relevancy in the Hood: Examining the Subversive in Urban School Curricula - Katie Sciurba Chapter 12: The Hood is Where the Heart is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film - Andrew de Waard Chapter 13: Do Not Believe the Hype: The Death and Resurrection of Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination - Nicola Mann Chapter 14: From the Bronx to Berlin: Hip-Hop Gra!ti and Spatial Reconfigurations of the Hood - David Drissel
