Acknowledgments -- Introduction: claiming hip-hop -- The African Americanization of hip-hop -- The racialization of DJ culture -- "The scratching is what got me hooked" : Filipino American DJs in the bay area -- "Djing as a Filipino thing" : negotiating questions of race -- The normative boundaries of Filipinoness -- Conclusion: reimagining the hip-hop nation -- Notes -- Index
Summary
Antonio T. Tiongson draws on interviews with Bay Area-based Filipino American DJs to explore the authenticating strategies they rely on to create a niche within DJ culture. He shows that while the engagement of Filipino youth with DJ culture speaks to the broadening racial scope of hip-hop, such involvement also upholds deracialized accounts of hip-hop and renders difference benign
