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Gwendolyn Pough has co-edited an anthology of hip hop feminist essays, art, fiction and poetry with Elaine Richardson, Aisha
Durham, and Rachel Raimist. The book will be out in March 2007!
Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere was published in June 2004 by Northeastern
University Press.
University Press of New England
Here's what the critics are saying:
"Taking a page from Jean Grae's Bootleg of the Bootleg EP, Gwendolyn Pough's new book Check It While I Wreck It:
Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere is a bold attempt to grab the mic."
Mark Anthony Neal, Africana: Gateway to the Black World
"Check It While I Wreck It is a thoroughly researched, erudite, and culturally relevant work that is virtually impossible
to put down. Reminiscent of the writings of bell hooks, this scholarly work on feminist theory and Hip-Hop culture is destined
to be an instant classic taught in college lecture halls across the country."
Emanuel Carpenter, Midwest Book Review
"Wreck is more than mere academic pop-culture analysis; it is also a text that provides practical application of it's
theories."
Joy Asekun, Iris: A Journal for Women
"Gwendolyn Pough brings some serious wreck in this fascinating study of black feminism and hip-hop."
Claudia Alick, Bust Magazine
"Check It While I Wreck It is a thought-provoking, enlightening read which affords all readers a window into a world
of an often misunderstood, yet extremely popular culture."
Autumn, RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
"Pough has provided the world with a well-researched, provocative account of hip-hop culture and the women who have
added to its success. . . This is a must-have book for every hip-hop lover, feminist, or African American studies student/department.
The issues discussed in this book will provide hours of discussion for anyone who reads it. Pough has brought "wreck"
to the area of academia."
Monique Bruner, Loose Leaves Independent Reviewers
"Gwendolyn Pough has done something that many would have never thought could be done. She wrote a delicate yet interesting
academic book on a era that many seemed to think would faze out. . .So I stand and give Ms. Pough applause for her dedication
and hard work to make today's world understand that women have a place in every culture, even hip-hop."
Misherald, Platinum Reviewers
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Gwendolyn Pough has co-edited a special issue of the journal FEMSPEC (Vol 6 - Issue 1 - 2005) with Yolanda Hood. The issue
is titled "Speculative Black Women: Magic, Fantasy, and the Supernatural." The cover features an art quilt by Kyra
E. Hicks titled "Prayers and Dreams." The issue is available now.
Table of Contents:
EDITORIAL REMARKS:
GWENDOLYN D. POUGH, YOLANDA HOOD
Speculative Black Women: Magic, Fantasy, and the Supernatural
CRITICISM:
JERRILYN McGREGORY. Nalo Hopkinson' s Approach to Speculative Fiction
GRETCHEN MICHLITSCH. Breastfeeding Mother Rescues City: Nalo Hopkinson's Ti-Jeanne as Superhero
KATHY DAVIS PATTERSON. "Haunting Back": Vampire Subjectivity in The Gilda Stories
TERESA N. WASHINGTON. Power of the Word/ Power of the Works: the Signifying African Soul of Africana Women's Literature
GINA WISKER. "Your Buried Ghosts Have A Way of Tripping You Up": Revisioning and Mothering in African American
and Afro Caribbean Women's Speculative Horror
SARAH WOOD. Subversion through Inclusion: Octavia Butler's Interrogations of Religion in Wild Seed and Xenogenesis
SPEECH:
NALO HOPKINSON. Address Given at The College of New Jersey, Department of African American Studies, 30th Anniversary Symposia:
"Afrofuturism: Womanist Paradigms for the New Millennium"
FICTION:
MARCIA DOUGLAS. Marie-Ma
KIINI IBURA SALAAM. K-USH: The Legend of the Last Wero
ANDREA SHAW. Jus' a Pinch of the Yellow Powder
POETRY:
HELEN CRUMP. Morning Wake-up Sun
ASERET SIN. Poetrix
ASERET SIN. Sister Ancestor
INTERVIEWS:
YOLANDA HOOD. Interview with Tananarive Due
GWENDOLYN D. POUGH. Interview with L. A. Banks
REVIEWS:
CANDICE M. JENKINS. Review of Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
GRETCHEN J. MICHLITSCH. Review of The Salt Roads
KATHY DAVIS PATTERSON. Review of Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend
JENNIFER THORINGTON SPRINGER. Review of Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
ALICIA THOMAS. Review of The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend
CARMIELE Y. WILKERSON. Review of Love
FEMSPEC
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