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Mark Anthony Neal

Mark Anthony Neal

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
man9@duke.edu
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
Science Building, 243F, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Zu-Zu’s Song Trauma, Citation, and the Black Women’s Songbook

Journal article Liquid Blackness · October 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Introduction: Wild seed in the machine

Journal article Black Scholar · July 3, 2017 Full text Cite

N*ggas in Paris: hip-hop in exile

Journal article Social Identities · March 3, 2016 This essay explores the meaning potentials of the exportation of American commercial rap music (exemplified via rap stars Kanye West and Jay Z) through the metaphorical lens of the discourse of exile. This perspective opens a view to Black aspirations as a ... Full text Cite

Guest Editors’ Note

Journal article Souls · October 2, 2014 Full text Cite

Nigga: The 21st-century theoretical superhero

Journal article Cultural Anthropology · August 1, 2013 Full text Cite

"I Am Not Just From Here:" The Roots of Hip Hop's Cosmopolitanism: A Reflection on Isoke's "Women, Hip Hop and Cultural Resistance in Dubai"

Journal article Souls · January 1, 2013 This response paper considers the gender realities of the subjects in Isoke's Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Resistance in Dubai in relation to U.S. based hip hop artists who have recently begun to situate their work and image in larger international context ... Full text Cite

Transforming Black Men in Feminism

Journal article Palimpsest · 2012 Cite

Bearing Witness: Mahalia Jackson & The Sanctified Bounce (for Clyde Woods)

Journal article Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography · 2012 Cite

Applications and societal benefits of plastics.

Journal article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · July 2009 This article explains the history, from 1600 BC to 2008, of materials that are today termed 'plastics'. It includes production volumes and current consumption patterns of five main commodity plastics: polypropylene, polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polyst ... Full text Cite

Carrying the Water: On Michael Eric Dyson

Journal article Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture · 2007 Cite

The Last Soul Brother: James Brown (1933-2006)

Journal article Popmatters: A Journal of Global Culture · 2007 Cite

Race-ing Katrina

Journal article Transforming Anthropology · April 2006 Cite

White Chocolate: Teena Marie and Lewis Taylor

Journal article Popular Music · October 2005 Featured Publication Cite

Up from hustling: Power, plantations, and the hip–hop mogul

Journal article International Journal of Phytoremediation · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

If You Don’t Own the Masters…

Journal article Souls: a critical journal of Black politics, culture, and society · 2003 Cite

Crisis In Real Time (Digitized Remastered and MP3ed)

Journal article Journal of Popular Music Studies · March 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Crisis in real time (digitized, remastered, and MP3ed)

Journal article Journal of Popular Music Studies · January 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Keeping It Real: The Hip-Hop Generation on Campus

Journal article Commonquest Magazine · 1998 Cite

Trouble Man: The Art and Politics of Marvin Gaye

Journal article Western Journal of Black Studies · 1998 Cite

Sold Out On Soul: the Corporate Annexation of Black Popular Music

Journal article Journal of Popular Music and Society · 1997 Cite

Niggas in Paris: Hip-Hop in Exile

Journal article Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Cite