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My wife Lupita and I were celebrating Cinco de Mayo at home Tuesday. We had a couple – or so – margaritas in honor of General Zaragoza's victory at the Battle of Puebla. Lupita said, "I wonder if Texans know what they're celebrating when they party on Cinco de Mayo." She's originally from Mexico and, though she knows the history well, she also knows that most Mexicans outside of Puebla don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo as much as people do in Texas. "I think many people treat it like they do St. Patrick's Day, a fun theme party of dressing green, drinking green – a good reason to party without knowing much about the real St. Patrick," she said. "To many, Cinco de Mayo is Mexican food, margaritas and tequila shots, and I'm totally down for that, but I bet some Texans would be surprised to know that General Zaragoza was a Texan, and 500 of the men at the battle were Tejanos." Now on a mission, she downed her margarita and whipped out her cell to Google it right quick. "Ah ha, mira, right as usual." She showed me a survey that said only one in ten Americans know Cinco de Mayo's true meaning: 39% think it's Mexican Independence Day – it isn't, 26% say it's a celebration of Mexican culture and 13% of the exceptionally honest say it's a good reason to drink. Most planned to celebrate by eating Mexican food, drinking margaritas or Mexican beer or having a Cinco de Mayo party at home. Interesting. I was more focused on the Texas connection myself. I was not surprised by the poor familiarity with the meaning of the date, or troubled by the faux association of Cinco de Mayo with "Three Amigos" and their saving of Santo Poco from El Guapo. People gotta have fun. I knew about General Zaragoza being a Texan, but I didn't know how deep his Texas roots went until I did some digging – pun thoroughly intended. He was born in Goliad in 1829, when Texas was part of Mexico, and only a few years before Texas Independence. If we look at his full name, Ignacio Zaragoza Seguin, we learn something. That last name, Seguin, was his mother's name. She was from San Antonio and a cousin of Juan Seguin who fought Santa Anna in the Texas Revolution and for whom the city of Seguin is named. Ignacio's father owned 11 leagues of land along the Red River, or about 50,000 acres, according to the Texas Land Office. He bought it for 100 pesos a league. That's mind-blowing. You couldn't even buy a square foot of that land today for 100 pesos. All this proves General Zaragoza's Texas bonafides. When Ignacio was in his early twenties, he joined the revolutionary army of Benito Juárez and eventually led an army of volunteers in defeating Santa Anna. Yes, that same Santa Anna. Zaragoza's victory effectively removed Santa Anna as dictator of Mexico. That's another reason we should recognize Zaragoza. Like all good Texans, he despised Santa Anna and wanted him dead so democracy could live. It is astonishing that Santa Anna was in power again 20 years after his humiliating loss at San Jacinto. But that man had more political lives than a cat. He was president of Mexico 11 times. No one man ever failed so often and so badly and still managed to claw his way back into power as Santa Anna did. Now, on to Puebla. The French, under Napoleon III, wanted to make Mexico their own colony in the Americas. They sent a large force of crack troops – 8,000 men – to take Mexico by storm. Juarez sent General Zaragoza to Puebla to defend Mexico from the Imperialist Invasion. This was Mexico's San Jacinto moment. Zaragoza had half as many men as the French army. He was definitely the underdog in this fight and was expected to lose badly. The French army's commander had the same haughty attitude that Santa Anna had about the Texans. He saw them as riffraff, as commoners, low-bred men without discipline. The French commander, Ferdinand Letrille, wrote that the Mexicans he faced "were of a lower race, poorly organized, poorly disciplined, of low morals" and in a uniquely French insult of a military force, said that they "lacked good taste." General Zaragoza enjoyed a stunning victory over those crack troops of good taste that day. The French lost 500 men at the Battle of Puebla: the Mexicans lost 100 and sent the French back to the coast, licking their wounds. The French hadn't lost a battle in 50 years, so this was a demoralizing defeat and a victory of national pride for the Mexicans that cannot be overstated. Sadly, General Zaragoza died four months later of typhoid fever. He was just 33. So we raise our margarita glasses on Cinco de Mayo to salute native Texan, General Zaragoza Seguin, for removing Santa Anna from power – forever – and for his San Jacinto-like victory at Puebla.

This thesis deals with narrative and discursive resources found in the works of five Chicana writers who write in Spanish in the eighties: Lucha Corpi, Gina Valdes, Miriam Bornstein, Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and Margarita Cota-Cárdenas. This study analyzes some literary devices that link the production of these five Chicana writers with minor literature and the concept of contact zone; furthermore this project studies how these writers create a transcultural and transnational literature. This study will argue that these five Chicana writers are "conspirators in contact zones" and their literary works have been regarded as minor literature. Deleuze and Guattari define a minor literature through three main characteristics; firstly the deterritorialization of language, secondly the political element, and finally, the collective value. The writers discussed in this thesis are configured as conspirators because they fight against the dominant discourses creating other possible narratives that demonstrate the process of exclusion and discrimination that they have endored as Chicana women writing in Spanish in the US. My work also shows how by writing in Spanish, this group of Chicana writers open spaces from where is it possible to resist to a dominant discourse and deconstruct hegemonic form. In addition, this study shows how these writers act as conspirators in an area that Mary Louise Pratt calls "contact zone," a space "where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination: such as colonialism, or are their aftermaths as they lived out across the globe today" (Imperial Eyes 7). Following the idea of "contact zone," it's clear that the Chicana writers I analyzed have lived in these spaces, for different reasons, and have experienced culture shock and relations of domination and subordination. As a result of these experiences, their works can be defined as transcultural. In these works we find to a greater or lesser extent, what according to Pratt contain cultural productions that occur in the contact zones: "Autoethnography, transculturation, critique, collaboration, bilingualism, mediation, parody, denunciation, imaginary dialogue, vernacular expression miscomprehension, incomprehension, dead letters, unread masterpieces, absolute heterogeneity of meaning and related hazards will also present" (Arts of the Contact 37). My dissertation chapters discuss how using Spanish, these Chicana writers construct poetic spaces and intertextuality from domestic situations, and create a minor literature that questions the concepts considered stable and homogeneous like the idea of nation, language and identity. Furthermore these women also propose their own feminism ranging from the personal to the collective, acting like true conspirators in contact zones. My study is necessary for several reasons. The first reason is because the literary critics overlooked the works of Chicana writers written in Spanish. Although these authors have not been totally ignored by critics, especially Chicano critics, the fact is that these studies have focused on the ones written in English translated into English. A second reason is that there is no study that has grouped these five writers (Lucha Corpi, Gina Valdes, Miriam Bornstein, Margarita Cota-Cárdenas and Erlinda Gonzales-Berry) as representatives of a Chicano literature written in Spanish in the eighties. The presence and contribution of Chicano literary woman remained in the dark for a long time. In the eighties there was an awakening of Chicano literature produced by the female community, as the Chicano woman found its place in American editorials, This was due to the socio-political claims of Chicano movement and also the rise of the feminist movement and civil rights in full fervor during those decades. However, as discussed at various points in this dissertation writing in Spanish did not offer the same publishing conditions experienced by other contemporary Chicano writers writing in English. This thesis covers this lack of attention toward cultural production in Spanish written by women, and shows the need to assert the Spanish language as a vehicle of expression of Chicano literature in the United States. Another reason for the need for this study its multidisciplinary theoretical approach. We understand that the works of these authors should not be regarded just as a purely literary product; in fact they also are tools to understand the variety of Chicano contexts, by revealing that confinement in a single battle or a single community is not possible. These writers show a creative desire that goes beyond spatial barriers that reinforce social differences and power relations based on race, class, sex, gender and national status. Supporting this perspective, a cultural and textual analysis of his works should incorporate transcultural argument that reveals two impossibilities: the existence of a single cultural heritage, as expressed by the Moroccan philosopher Abdelkebir Khatibi in his article "plural Maghreb", and the inability to oppose the cultural hegemony from positions based on absolute truths of race and ethnicity. In conclusion with this study I aim to contribute and join the effort of a literary criticism that tries to overcome reductionist, unambiguous and stereotyped criteria, showing the reality of a Chicano space with a large internal diversity both for the various themes used, the diverse language skills, and for different regions of origin.

Die urbanen Räume der Zukunft Das Buch versammelt spekulative Beiträge zu disruptiven, nicht linearen Zukünften urbaner Agglomerationen, die auf Untersuchungen zu urbanen Innovationen am Department of Special Topics in Architecture am Institut für Architektur der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien basieren. Neben renommierten Expert:innen nehmen auch Studierende Stellung zu Fragen unserer urbanen Zukunft. Nonlinear ist auch die neuartige Lesestruktur, die durch die Konzeption des Buches realisiert und nahegelegt wird: Thematische, grafische Querverweise ermöglichen neben dem kontinuierlichen ein kontextuelles Lesen. Die Anreicherung des gedruckten Buches um digitale Augmented-Reality-Komponenten bietet darüber hinaus ein vernetztes, gleichzeitiges Lesen auf mehreren inhaltlichen Ebenen und spiegelt so die Komplexität urbaner Systeme wider. Neue Ansätze im Urbanismus Ein Spektrum an spekulativen Blicken in die urbane Zukunft Kontextuelle Lesestruktur: Anreicherung des gedruckten Buches um Augmented-Reality-Komponenten.

International audience ; The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) aims to facilitate the exploration of alien species information in Europe, and is recognized as the information system supporting European Union Member States in the implementation of the recently published Invasive Alien Species Regulation. In this paper, we present the role and activities of the EASIN Editorial Board (EB), which is responsible for the quality assurance, safeguarding and constant improvement of EASIN. The EB is supported by a web platform that facilitates online discussions about alien species. This platform creates a virtual community by providing a forum-like interface that is moderated by the EB Members but is freely accessible to the scientific community and the general public. It allows all registered users to make comments, raise questions and share experience and expertise on alien species in Europe. Moreover, it provides a means for exchanging opinions and solving disputes in a transparent way. The overall EB activity is commonly agreed upon procedures and standards.

International audience ; The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) aims to facilitate the exploration of alien species information in Europe, and is recognized as the information system supporting European Union Member States in the implementation of the recently published Invasive Alien Species Regulation. In this paper, we present the role and activities of the EASIN Editorial Board (EB), which is responsible for the quality assurance, safeguarding and constant improvement of EASIN. The EB is supported by a web platform that facilitates online discussions about alien species. This platform creates a virtual community by providing a forum-like interface that is moderated by the EB Members but is freely accessible to the scientific community and the general public. It allows all registered users to make comments, raise questions and share experience and expertise on alien species in Europe. Moreover, it provides a means for exchanging opinions and solving disputes in a transparent way. The overall EB activity is commonly agreed upon procedures and standards.

International audience ; The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) aims to facilitate the exploration of alien species information in Europe, and is recognized as the information system supporting European Union Member States in the implementation of the recently published Invasive Alien Species Regulation. In this paper, we present the role and activities of the EASIN Editorial Board (EB), which is responsible for the quality assurance, safeguarding and constant improvement of EASIN. The EB is supported by a web platform that facilitates online discussions about alien species. This platform creates a virtual community by providing a forum-like interface that is moderated by the EB Members but is freely accessible to the scientific community and the general public. It allows all registered users to make comments, raise questions and share experience and expertise on alien species in Europe. Moreover, it provides a means for exchanging opinions and solving disputes in a transparent way. The overall EB activity is commonly agreed upon procedures and standards.

WOS: 000422633100002 ; The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) aims to facilitate the exploration of alien species information in Europe, and is recognized as the information system supporting European Union Member States in the implementation of the recently published Invasive Alien Species Regulation. In this paper, we present the role and activities of the EASIN Editorial Board (EB), which is responsible for the quality assurance, safeguarding and constant improvement of EASIN. The EB is supported by a web platform that facilitates online discussions about alien species. This platform creates a virtual community by providing a forum-like interface that is moderated by the EB Members but is freely accessible to the scientific community and the general public. It allows all registered users to make comments, raise questions and share experience and expertise on alien species in Europe. Moreover, it provides a means for exchanging opinions and solving disputes in a transparent way. The overall EB activity is commonly agreed upon procedures and standards. ; European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV) ; The authors wish to thank the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV) for their support. We thank also the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments and corrections.

International audience ; The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) aims to facilitate the exploration of alien species information in Europe, and is recognized as the information system supporting European Union Member States in the implementation of the recently published Invasive Alien Species Regulation. In this paper, we present the role and activities of the EASIN Editorial Board (EB), which is responsible for the quality assurance, safeguarding and constant improvement of EASIN. The EB is supported by a web platform that facilitates online discussions about alien species. This platform creates a virtual community by providing a forum-like interface that is moderated by the EB Members but is freely accessible to the scientific community and the general public. It allows all registered users to make comments, raise questions and share experience and expertise on alien species in Europe. Moreover, it provides a means for exchanging opinions and solving disputes in a transparent way. The overall EB activity is commonly agreed upon procedures and standards.

International audience ; The European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN) aims to facilitate the exploration of alien species information in Europe, and is recognized as the information system supporting European Union Member States in the implementation of the recently published Invasive Alien Species Regulation. In this paper, we present the role and activities of the EASIN Editorial Board (EB), which is responsible for the quality assurance, safeguarding and constant improvement of EASIN. The EB is supported by a web platform that facilitates online discussions about alien species. This platform creates a virtual community by providing a forum-like interface that is moderated by the EB Members but is freely accessible to the scientific community and the general public. It allows all registered users to make comments, raise questions and share experience and expertise on alien species in Europe. Moreover, it provides a means for exchanging opinions and solving disputes in a transparent way. The overall EB activity is commonly agreed upon procedures and standards.

Chapter 1. Introduction(Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc) -- Part I: COVID's Global Impact and Marginalisation -- Chapter 2. COVID-19s Economic and Social Impact Globally(Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc) -- Part II: Social Impacts and Marginalisation -- Chapter 3. De-Marginalising Social-Democracy: The Recovery Of The Collectivity In Europe During Covid-19 Pandemic(Hugo Capellà i Miternique) -- Chapter 4. COVID-19 Lockdown and Education: The Risk of Increasing Marginalisation - Distance-Education in Switzerland During the Spring 2020 Lockdown(Walter Leimgruber) -- Chapter 5. Restrictions on Formal Education Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Effects on Growing Marginalisation in Argentina(Margarita Schmidt and Claudio Urra Coletti) -- Chapter 6. Addressing Geographical Marginality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Romania: Civil Society, Volunteerism, and Networking(Oana-Ramona Ilovan, Alexandra Ioana Ciupe and Csaba Horváth) -- Chapter 7. The COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia: Its impacts on the poor and migrant workers communities in urban areas.(Jamalunlaili Abdullah and Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi) -- Chapter 8. Marginality and Resilience Strategies in Coastal Fishing Villages during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the State of Yucatan, Mexico(José Manuel Crespo-Guerrero and Araceli Jiménez-Pelcastre) -- Part III: Economic Impacts and Marginalisation -- Chapter 9. The COVID-19 pandemic and the enhanced marginalisation of marginal tourist destinations(Gabriel Camară) -- Chapter 10. Exacerbating Marginalisation: COVID-19's Impact on Peripheral, Tourism-Dependent Regions in New Zealand and Local Responses(Etienne Nel) -- Chapter 11. The COVID-19 pandemic's implications for tourism preferences in Croatia: potential new challenges for marginal areas(Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš and Ivan Šulc) -- Chapter 12. The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Tourism in Romania in 2020 With Special Regard on Marginal Rural Areas(Raularian Rusu) -- Chapter 13. Tourism and (De)Marginalisation: How to Minimise the Cost of COVID-19 in Porto(Ana Ferreira) -- Part IV: COVID-19's Impact on Movement and Globalisation -- Chapter 14. Spatial Diffusion of COVID-19: From Hyper-Connected Territories to Marginal Areas: the Case of Niassa, Mozambique(Paulo Nossa, Anabela Mota-Pinto, Alice Freia, Julio Masquete, Pedro Bem-Haja Fernanda Cravidão) -- Chapter 15. Vietnam's Global Market Integration During the Covidian Era : An Exploratory Analysis of the Pandemic's Marginalising Effects on the Rural Poor(Antoine Beaulieu) -- Part V: Conclusion -- Chapter 16. Some Conclusions About COVID-19's Impact on Marginality and Marginalisation(Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš, Etienne Nel and Stanko Pelc).

Introduction / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Punks and hipsters : Latina outsiders remaking Latina identity / Grisel Y. Acosta -- "The child is bewitched" : syncretism and self-making in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban / Alexander Lalama -- Coritos for las de afuera / Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros -- The journey of a sexy nerd : antes muerte que sencilla / Connie Pertuz-Mesa -- Just for standing out / Toni Margarita Plummer -- Activism is not a phase : testimonio of a radical Xicana Ph.D. / Irene M. Sánchez -- Playing chola : the discourse of subjects and subject-selves / Veronica Sandoval -- Caravan / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Ruidosas to the front : Alice Bag and the construction of Violence Girl / Sarah Dowman -- Loving Latinas : when questioning sexuality means questioning Latinidad / Sarah Paruolo -- Returning to the Bronx : gender, the outsider perspective, and Utopia in Juliet takes a breath / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Separación / Luis Lopez-Maldonado -- Catcalls to my brain / Nancy Mercado -- Between and beyond the mediated and the material in Teatro Luna's Generation sex / Melissa Huerta -- Permission / Stephanie Jimenez -- Excerpt from ch. 6 of The Lunasole class / Stephanie Laterza -- Parts of an autobiography / Carmen Giménez Smith -- Every woman keeps a flame against the wind / Kristen Millares Young -- Dear Barbara T. y Gloria E. : found auto-ethnographic letters to blacktina nepantla acrobats / Monique Guishard -- Haciendo caras : the alter-native illuminations of Laura Varela and Vaago Weiland's Enlight-tent / Cathryn Merla-Watson -- Living on the threshold : a Latina English professor / M. Soledad Caballero -- My English Victorian dating troubles / Analicia Sotelo -- What was the passion fruit named before the Europeans renamed it? / Aline Mello -- In-laws, outlaws / Anna Padilla-Davis -- Yo soy Boricua feminista, pa'que tu lo sepas! : notes from a Diasporican on performing outsider identity / Jessica N. Pabón-Colón -- Latina liberation : a conversation of soul, sacred well-being and community / Gloria Rodriguez -- Pa'que sepan / Vanessa "Bashi" Alviso -- The symbology of the derailed mind / Angela Gonzalez-Gartelman -- Poison and monsters / Jiovanna L. Pérez -- Stroke / Nova Gutierrez -- You either see me or you don't / Joanmaris Cuello -- My mother as the voice of Frida Kahlo / Analicia Sotelo -- Sounding la raza cósmica / Veronica Salinas -- Why a girl becomes a hardcore chica / Grisel Y. Acosta -- Dropping dimes / Diana Díaz -- Good enough / Nancy Méndez-Booth -- Tracing Elaine Summer's dance and performance lineage : performance notes / Jane Gabriels -- Belonging, chaos, blood, and tissues : assumptions about Latina writers in academia / Naida Saavedra -- Write like a girl / Claudia Rodriguez -- Conclusion / Grisel Y. Acosta.

Contents: Introduction: The Future of 24-Hour News: New Directions, New Challenges – Stephen Cushion/Richard Sambrook: Part I. Industry Challenges and Pressures: International Perspectives: Setting the Scene and Provoking Debate – Richard Sambrook/Sean McGuire: Have 24-Hour TV News Channels Had Their Day? - The View from the Control Room: Executives and Editors on the Future of 24-Hour Television News - The View from the United States: Three Forces Shaping the Future of Video News – David L. Westin: The View from Europe: «All Views» First – Michael Peters: The View from Russia: «Your News Channel» Is Here to Stay – Margarita Simonyan: The View from Australia: How Will We Be Heard? – Mark Scott: The View from the UK: Sky News – John Ryley: The View from the UK: The BBC - Channel Wars, Streaming Wars – Peter Horrocks: The View from the Middle East: Al Jazeera – Ibrahim Helal: View of the News Agencies: The Struggle for Renewal and Renaissance – David Schlesinger: Part II. Understanding the Past, Present and Future of 24-hour News: Changing Conventions and Journalism Practices - Revisiting the Three Phases of 24-Hour News Television in the Age of Social Media – Stephen Cushion: Televisual Newspapers? When 24/7 Television News Channels Join Newspapers as «Old Media» – Michael Bromley: 24-Hour News Channels around the Globe: Continuity or Change? – Mugdha Rai/Simon Cottle: The Political Economy and Journalisms of 24-Hour News Culture - Financial Challenges of 24-Hour News Channels – Robert G. Picard: Quick Quick Slow: From Fast News to Slow News – Justin Lewis: Journalism in the Age of the «Interface» – Ingrid Volkmer: Networked Reporting on Al Jazeera English: Context, Challenges and Comparative Advantages – Tine Ustad Figenschou: Twitter and the Rolling-News Agenda in Sports News – Alan Tomlinson: Producing News in the Moment: Video Journalism in an Increasingly Converged 24/7 Media Environment – Mary Angela Bock: National Contexts and Journalistic Challenges - The International Newsgathering Challenge for Public Service Australian and Canadian 24/7 TV Channels – Colleen Murrell: Anti-Social Media: Watching, Hearing and Talking about Politics in US Cable News Channels – Jesse Holcomb: The Evolving Format of US Cable News and the Proliferation of Opinion – Alison Dagnes: 24-Hour News in Australia: Public Service and Private Interests – Brian McNair: Where Infotainment Rules: TV News from India – Yunya Song/ Tsan-kuo Chang Yin Lu: Daya Kishan Thussu: CCTV 24-Hour Chinese-Language News: From Offline to Online.

Preface: Turning Nothing Into Something is God Work': Holiness and Hurt in the Hood, Michael Eric Dyson (University of Georgetown, USA) -- Introduction: Context and Other Considerations, Anthony B. Pinn (Rice University, USA) & Monica R. Miller (Lehigh University, USA) -- Part 1: Hip Hop on Religion as/for the Embodied Self. 1. Searching for Self: Religion and the Creative Quest for Self in the Art of Erykah Badu, Margarita Simon-Guillory (University of Rochester, USA) ; 2. Methods for the Prophetic: Tupac Shakur, Lauryn Hill, and the Case for Ethnolifehistory, Daniel White-Hodge (North Park University, USA) ; 3. Existentialist Transvaluation and Hip-Hop's Syncretic Religiosity, Julius D. Bailey (Wittenberg University, USA) ; 4. God Complex, Complex gods, or God's Complex? Jay Z, Poor Black Youth, and Making 'The Struggle' Divine, Michael Eric Dyson (Georgetown University, USA) -- Part 2: Hip Hop on Religion and the 'Other'. 5. A PARTICULAR PAC: Ontological Ruptures and the Posthumous Presence of Tupac Shakur, James Braxton Peterson (Lehigh University, USA) ; 6. *iRoamThruZones* Follow Me! #NOWTHATSRELIGIONANDHIPHOP: Mapping the Terrain of Religion and Hip Hop in Cyberspace, Elonda Clay, Archivist and Digital Librarian (Philander Smith College, USA) & Ph.D. Candidate (VU University, The Netherlands) ; 7. Mapping Space and Place in the Analysis of Hip Hop and Religion: Houston As An Example, Maco L. Faniel, author of Hip Hop in Houston: The Origin and the Legacy (Houston, Texas, USA) ; 8. Imperial Whiteness Meets Hip-Hop Blackness: A Spiritual Phenomenology of the Hegemonic Body in 21st Century USA, James W. Perkinson (Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA) ; 9. Bun B on Religion and Hip Hop, Bernard "Bun B" Freeman (Rice University, USA) -- Part 3: Approaches to Religion in Hip Hop on the Margins. 10. Hip Hop and Humanism: Thinking Against New (and Old) Fundamentalisms, Greg Dimitriadis (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA,) ; 11. Conspiracy is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Hip-Hop, Aesthetics, and Suspicious Spiritualities, John L. Jackson, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ; 12. Constructing Constellations: Frankfurt School, Lupe Fiasco, and the Promise of Weak Redemption, Joseph Winters (UNC Charlotte, USA) ; 13. Zombies in the 'Hood: Rap Music, Camusian Absurdity, and the Structuring of Death, Anthony B. Pinn (Rice University, USA) ; 14. Real Recognize Real: Aporetic Flows and the Presence of New Black Godz in Hip Hop, Monica R. Miller (Lehigh University, USA) -- Concluding Thoughts: The Future of the Study of Religion in/and Hip Hop, Monica R. Miller (Lehigh University, USA) & Anthony B. Pinn (Rice University, USA) -- Afterword: An Insider Perspective, Bernard 'Bun B' Freeman (Rice University, USA).