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
Pamela So Booker
    Custom House Tales: (Miss) Diana Ross, Lit' Kim, Hester 'Negrita'
    Prynne, and Me
James G. Spady
    The Centrality of Black Language in 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).