►B.Ma Back Issue: 6.1 Fall 2001

360 Degrees of Sonia Sanchez: Hip-Hop,

Narrativity, Iqhawe, and Public Spaces of Being

Guest Editor, James G. Spady

►Contents

James G. Spady: Introduction: 360 Degreez of Sonia Sanchez: HipHop, Narrativity, Iqhawe and Public Spaces

of Being

H. Samy Alim: 360 Degreez of Black Art Comin At You: Sista Sonia Sanchez and the Dimensions of A Black Arts Continuum

Pamela So Booker: Custom House Tales: (Miss) Diana Ross, Lit' Kim, Hester 'Negrita' Prynne, and Me

James G. Spady: The Centrality of Black Language

n the Discourse Strategies and Poetic Force of Sonia Sanchez and Rap Artists

Minister Erik J. WI1llams, Esquire: THUGOLOGY®: Carving Out Explosive Biblical and Thugological Space

in A Hip Hop Universe

Shashemene Clarke: Dreams of Home: Rastafari's Imagining Community for The African Diaspora

Leandre Jackson: A Public Sense of Being:

Photographing the Hip Hop Nation

Christopher Hurst: Albert Sumbo-Ncube: The Creation

of a Popular Hero Using AmaNdebele Oral Historical Narrative

James E. Cherry:

ANNIE ALLEN (for Gwendolyn Brooks) -- Poem

Frenzella Elaine DeLancey: Sonia Sanchez's A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women and Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever: Progressive Phases Amid Modernist Shadows & PostModernist Acts

Sonia Sanchez: Umum Poetry Portfolio:

“Dear Mama: For Tupac Amaru Shakur,”

“Two Haikus (for Clarence H. Watson and The Count),” “Last Recording Session/for Papa Jo,” and

“A Poem for My Father (96 yrs old on Feb. 29, 2000).”