The two books that I had in mind while writing were Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic and Robin Kelley’s Race Rebels. These were my bibles as an undergrad, and I was trying to follow in these scholars’ footsteps: trying to use music as a lens to understand links between empire and racial oppression.
Hisham Aidi in interview with Jadaliyya. Hisham Aidi, Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
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Source: jadaliyya.com