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An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the cultures early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genres significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hops connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization. Read more