Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America. While the youth in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they also productively maneuver through what the author analyzes as the 'give' - friendship, love, and hip hop - in the system.

Autorentext

Katie Rose Hejtmanek is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and Children and Youth Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA.

Inhalt

PART I: CONTEXTS 1. Histories and Social Contexts 2. The Ethnographic Setting PART II: LIFE AT HAVENWOOD 3. Institutional Living 4. Crazy Shit 5. A Keepin' It Real Group 6. Kickin' It 7. Becoming Good Men PART III: SUBJECTS AND POWER 8. A Hip-Hop-Therapeutic Subjectivity 9. Mad Love: Theorizing and Politicizing Transformation