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This article utilizes hip hop to examine the cultural space shared by Nigerians and African Americans in spite of the vast geographic distance. The common approach to music making and appreciation creates a virtual shared space where these musicians and listeners exchange ideas and styles. This article traces out the boundaries of this shared cultural space in the contemporary black world by focusing first on African and African American hip hop artists who have sampled from the music and political energy from their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic. The connection between culture and language is essential to an understanding of the power of hip hop as a universal language. So we ask the question, is hip hop speaking the same language to these two distinct groups of young black people? What is the terrain of the shared space and how do the artists and the audiences navigate within the boundaries of this virtual haven? Ultimately, this article will offer suggestions about how the process of hip hop music making and consumption impacts concepts of black identity, politics, and power in Africa and America.

In 'Race and the American Story', Stephanie Shonekan and Adam Seagrave provide a unique window into race relations in contemporary America. Shonekan, a Black woman who grew up in Nigeria and Trinidad before emigrating to the US and Seagrave, a white man who grew up in California's Napa Valley, have entwined their life histories to shed light on how Americans experience race. This book explores the authors' insights into the personal and social effects of racism and contains both an open acknowledgment of the realities of racism and a hopeful approach to confronting it. This book provides a historically sensitive, culturally informed, and refreshingly novel treatment of race in the US. Combining the power of storytelling with the authors' expertise as scholars of politics and culture, this book shows how two very different personal stories relate to the American story.

Introduction -- Part I. Race, nation, and resistance in Brazil and the Caribbean -- Resistance and the evaporation of masters' authority: two Brazilian cases -- Rastafari: race and spirituality -- Birth and death of a Creole nation -- Black man's cry in the Babylon system: a comparative analysis of Fela Kuti and Bob Marley -- On the wings: muralism as feminist political praxis by Afro-Puerto Rican women -- A Geração tombamento: black empowerment through aesthetics in Salvador de Bahia -- English language hegemony and STEM education in the Caribbean -- Part II. African American narratives of resistance -- "No scheme more monstrous could have been invented": slave election ceremonies and the New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741 -- Anna Julia Cooper's quintessential resistance in the early Pan-Africanist voice of women -- Unlikely agents of change: desegregation at the University of Missouri -- Rewriting the Bible: the Jesus figure in black Atlantic women's literature -- Big chief: the black Indian tradition of New Orleans -- Black nationalism and the presidency of Donald Trump -- Conclusion.

Black mizzou: music and stories one year later / Stephanie Shonekan -- Black matters: black folk studies and black campus life / Fernando Orejuela -- Black folklife matters: slabs and the social importance of contemporary African American folklife / Langston Collin Wilkins -- Black music matters: affirmation and resilience in African American musical spaces in Washington, DC / Alison Martin -- Black Detroit: sonic distortion fuels social distortion / Denise Dalphond -- Conclusion: race, place, and pedagogy in the black lives matter era / Stephanie Shonekan.