FrontCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: The Hood As Lived Practice -- Chapter 2: Resistance to the Present: Dead Prez -- Chapter 3: Sì Siamo Italiani!: Ethnocultural Identity, Class Consciousness, and Anarchic Sensibilities in an Italian-Canadian Working-Class Enclave -- Chapter 4: Precarious Life: On Dwelling, Mobility, and Artistic Intervention -- Chapter 5: Living "The Strip": Negotiating Neighborhood, Community, and Identity on Australia's Gold Coast -- Chapter 6: Habitus and Rethinking the Discourse of Youth Gangs, Crime, Violence, and Ghetto Communities -- Chapter 7: Activist Literacy in the Hood: Lessons for Youth and Urban Education -- Chapter 8: The Girls from Compton Go to College -- Part II: Representing the Hood in Music, Film, and Art -- Chapter 9: Making "Changes": 2Pac, Nas, and the Habitus of the Hood -- Chapter 10: The Mobile Hood: Realness and the Rules of the Game -- Chapter 11: Hip Hop's Cultural Relevancy in the Hood: Examining the "Subversive" in Urban School Curricula -- Chapter 12: The Hood is Where the Heart is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film -- Chapter 13: Do Not Believe the Hype: The Death and Resurrection of Public Housing in the American Visual Imagination -- Chapter 14: From the Bronx to Berlin: Hip-Hop GraBti and Spatial Reconfigurations of the Hood -- BackCover.