Performing Urgency: Slamming and Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis

 

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Fields, Amanda, Londie T. Martin, Adela C. Licona, and Elizabeth H. Tilley. “Performing Urgency: Slamming and Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 20.1 (2015): n. pag. Won the journal’s 2016 Best Webtext Award.

My contributions to the project: developed critical youth studies and hip-hop feminist frameworks; developed critical analyses of youth poetry, particularly where issues of race, youth, and sexuality intersect; designed and constructed website architecture and aesthetics using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.