Performing IdentityPerforming Culture Hip Hop as Text Pedagogy and Lived Practice is the first booklength ethnography of young people and their uses of hip hop culture. Originally published in 2001 this second edition is newly revised expanded and updated to reflect contemporary currents in hip hop culture and critical scholarship as well as the epochal social cultural and economic shifts of the last decade. Drawing together historical work on hip hop and rap music as well as four years of research at a local community center Greg Dimitriadis argues here that contemporary youth are fashioning notions of self and community outside of school in ways educators have largely ignored. His studies are broadranging how two teenagers constructed notions of a Southern tradition through their use of Southern rap artists like Eightball amp MJG and Three 6 Mafia how young people constructed notions of history through viewing the film Panther a film they connected to hip hop culture more broadly and how young people dealt with the life and death of hip hop icon Tupac Shakur constructing resurrection myths that still resonate and circulate today.