“ ‘Ya Basta! – That’s enough!’ – Gangbanging and Protesting; an analysis of the Political Subculture of Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running”

Metcalf, Jo

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The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV (2014)
Book Chapter
Metcalf, J. (2014). The peacemaking producer of LA: Negotiating and representing gangs on reality TV. In J. Metcalf, & W. Turner (Eds.), Rapper, Writer, Pop-Cultural Player: Ice-T and the Politics of Black Cultural Production (201-230). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612

Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player: Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production (2014)
Book
Metcalf, J., & Turner, W. (2014). Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player: Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612

This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle th... Read More about Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player: Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production.

Book review of Michael P. Jeffries’s Paint the White House Black; Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America (2014)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2014). Book review of Michael P. Jeffries’s Paint the White House Black; Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America. Journal of American Studies, 48(2), 156. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000589

The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs (2012)
Book
Metcalf, J. (2012). The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs. University Press of Mississippi. https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781617032813.001.0001

The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles-New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a "shocking and galvanic book"-and set off a... Read More about The culture and politics of contemporary street gang memoirs.

Reviewing ‘Monsters'; the Press Reception and Media Constructions of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs (2012)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2012). Reviewing ‘Monsters'; the Press Reception and Media Constructions of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs. Crime, media, culture : an international journal, 8(3), 333-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659012443228

In 1993, a new trend of memoirs began to emerge in the United States, exploring contemporary street gang life in the ghettos and barrios. The first memoirs in this cycle form the subject of this paper: Sanyika Shakur's Monster and Luis Rodriguez's Al... Read More about Reviewing ‘Monsters'; the Press Reception and Media Constructions of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs.

Monster, Dreams, and Cultural Studies: Exploring Gang Memoir and Political Autobiography (2011)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2011). Monster, Dreams, and Cultural Studies: Exploring Gang Memoir and Political Autobiography. Journal of American Culture, 34(4), 391-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.2011.00788.x

From rage to rap and prison to print: social, cultural and commercial contexts in the emergence of gang memoirs (2009)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2009). From rage to rap and prison to print: social, cultural and commercial contexts in the emergence of gang memoirs. European journal of American studies, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.7651

“ ‘Ya Basta! – That’s enough!’ – Gangbanging and Protesting; an analysis of the Political Subculture of Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running” (2007)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2007). “ ‘Ya Basta! – That’s enough!’ – Gangbanging and Protesting; an analysis of the Political Subculture of Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running”. US studies online : a forum for new writing, 10(Spring),