About the Author

P. Khalil Saucier is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Rhode Island College.

Reviews

"A marvelous illustration of how hip-hop serves as an orienting force for articulating the experiences of blackness among second-generation Cape Verdean youth. Yet Necessarily Black is much more than a book about Cape Verdeans and hip-hop. By mapping the contours and politics of identification in an antiblack world, Saucier (re)affirms the corporeality of racial identity, making a significant contribution to dialectic understandings of blackness."
--Anthony Kwame Harrison, Gloria D. Smith Professor of Black Studies, Virginia Tech