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H. Samy Alim
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles |
Sociolinguistics, style theory and methodology, ethnographic studies of street language, culture, and music; language and race(ism), power and identity, Black Language and Hip Hop Culture, Global Hip Hop Cultural Studies, linguistic profiling, language and literacy development in marginalized communities, US and the Arabic-speaking world (mainly Egypt).
Activities & Honors:
H. Samy Alim is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Recent books include Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture (Routledge, 2006), Tha Global Cipha: Hip Hop Culture and Consciousness (with James G. Spady and Samir Meghelli, Black History Museum, 2006) and You Know My Steez (Duke, 2004). His research interests include style theory and methodology, Global Hip Hop Culture(s), language and race(ism), and the language and literacy development of linguistically profiled and marginalized populations. Alim has been working with middle and high school students in schools for over a decade, from West Philadelphia, PA to East Palo Alto, CA, teaching courses on language and communication while developing "critical Hip Hop language pedagogies." Most recently, he has edited a volume (with John Baugh) entitled Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change (Teachers College Press, 2007) and a special issue of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education (with Alastair Pennycook, 2007) on "Global linguistic flows: Hip Hop Cultures, youth identities, and the politics of language education."
Selected Publications:
• Alim, H. S. and Baugh, J. (Eds.) (2007). Talkin’ Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Alim, H. S. (2006). Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture. New York: Routledge.
• Alim, H. S. (2006). "The Natti Ain't No Punk City": Emic Views of Hip Hop Cultures. Callaloo, 29(3), pp. 969-990.
• Alim, H. S., (2004). You Know My Steez: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Styleshifting in a Black American Speech Community.
• Alim, H. S. (2004). Preface: Real Talk. American Speech, 2004 Annual Supplement.
• Alim, H. S. (2003). On Some Serious Next Millennium Rap Ishhh. Journal of English Linguistics, 31(1), pp. 60-85.
• Alim, H. S. (2002). Street Conscious Copula Variation in the Hip Hop Nation American Speech, 77(3), pp. 288-301
• Spady, J., Lee, C. and Alim, H. S. (1999). Street Conscious Rap. Philadelphia: Black History Museum Umum/Loh Publishers.
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