Performing Identity/Performing Culture

The Author: Greg Dimitriadis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He is author or editor (alone and with others) of ten books and over fifty articles and book chapters.

«This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. The most serious ethographic analysis we have to date of hip-hop as a cultural formation. It provides ground zero - the starting place for the next generation of theorists who study youth, race, American popular culture, identity, and performance in everyday life. A stunning accomplishment by one of America's major social theorists.» (Norman K. Denzin, College of Communications Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
«This book is signature Dimitriadis. The second edition offers us a museum of words and music, situated in politics and context, with the voice-over of Dimitriadis whispering theory into our ears so we can re-view and re-hear what young people are saying. Greg Dimitriadis invites educators gently and brilliantly into dialogue across generations and genres we might have thought were unbridgeable; linking communities misguided by the fantasy that we are separate.» (Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Urban Education, and Women's Studies at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York)
«Greg Dimitriadis moves us beyond the rigid pessimism and uncritical romanticism that has traditionally governed scholarship in the field. It also cements Dimitriadis' well-deserved reputation as one of the most original, insightful, and visionary scholars on the scene today.» (Marc Lamont Hill, Author of 'Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity')