Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop SouthThis vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators including T. I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn Ward. This work, Bradley argues, helps define new