"Rock-a-bye, baby!": Black women disrupting gangs and constructing hip-hop gangsta films

Cinema Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 25-40

  Smith Shomade, Beretta E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 60950365331     PISSN: 00097101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2003.0004     Document Type: Review

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