Publications, Public Scholarship and Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
Selected Publications (Print):
These pubs are available via university library article databases and at SFSU Library. Click the hyperlink to access.
Fischer, D-E. (2021). “I Can’t Live without My Radio” by LL Cool J, In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Fischer, D-E. (2021). “The Symphony” by Marley Marl et al, In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Fischer, D-E. (2021). “Pocket Full of Stones” by UGK. In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Fischer, D-E. (2021). “Coming Out Hard” by Eightball & MJG, In Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Fischer, D-E. (2018). “Anthropology and (the) Black Experience—Revisited.” In Michael T. Tillotson (Ed.), Whispering Out Loud: Voices of Africana (pp. 81-107). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
McDougal, S. & Fischer, D-E. (2018). Ku komena nyundo: The Africana studies effect. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 22-40.
Fischer, D-E. (2014). “Teaching Us to See: How Hiphop Renders Race Visible.” Proceedings of the International Symposium of Engaging Race and Racism in the New Millennium: Exploring Visibilities and Invisibilities (pp. 64-77). Edited by Yasuko Takezawa. Published by the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. Printed by Hokuto Print, co. Ltd: Kyoto, Japan.
Fischer, D-E. [2014- backdated to 2013]. This bridge called Hiphop: Samples of percussion, piracy and politics from Brazil and Colombia. Fire!!!, Vol2, No. 1, 3-25.
Fischer, D-E. (2013). Blackness, race and language politics in Japanese Hiphop. Transforming Anthropology.21 (2), 135-152.
Fischer, D-E. (2012). Hiphop within a womanist lens. The Western Journal of Black Studies. 36 (1), 86-96.
Fischer, D-E. (2011). Wannabe startin’ somethin’: Michael Jackson’s critical race representation. Journal of Popular Music Studies. 23 (1), 96-107.
Morgan, M., & Fischer, D-E. (2010). Hiphop and race: Blackness, language and creativity. In H. Markus & P. Moya (Eds.), Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (pp. 509-27). New York, NY: Norton.
Fischer, D.-E. T. I. (2007). “Kobushi ageroo!” (=Pump ya fist!)) Blackness, "race" and politics in Japanese Hiphop. (PhD thesis, University of Florida).
Fischer, D. (2005). Literacy education. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. New York: Macmillan.
Fischer Banks, D. (2002). Hip-hop as critical pedagogy. Anthropology News 43 (8): 46-47.
Selected Public Scholarship and Media:
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Where Hokusai and Hip-Hop Intersect (Review) by Renny Pritikin in SquareCylinder (OCTOBER 2, 2023)
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Hip-hop turns 50: A look at the past, present and future of the global phenomenon “Under the Radar” hosted by Callie Crossley for GBH/ WGBH radio (aired August 11, 2023,NPR) – there is a written synopsis by Jesse Steinmetz and Mariam Hydara as well as a link to the audio/ listen
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History of Hiphop Scholarship with Davey D on the History of Funk hosted by Dr. Rickey Vincent. KPFA Radio, Berkely, CA. August 11, 2023.
Fischer, D-E. The Poetry of Kendrick Lamar. Theme: Kendrick Lamar and the Body: Lungs. (Prof Sarah Byrne) The Well Review. October 26, 2022.
Fischer, D-E. (with Michael Payton, Davey D Cook, Dina Ibrahim) The Murder Inc Story Q & A with Director Michael Payton CSU Entertainment Alliance. Septemebr 1, 2022.
Fischer's “Hiphop through a Womanist Lens” (2012) article from the Western Journal of Black Studies was cited in Pendarvis Harshaw's "How Hip-Hop Talks About Abortion in Ways Other Art Forms Can't" article (2022) that also was reposted in SFSU Campus News as, “Associate Professor of Anthropology Dawn-Elissa Fischer discussed hip-hop artists who have addressed abortion with thoughtfulness and nuance. KQED-FM 6/30/2022”
Fischer, D-E. Juneteeth “Black California Freedom Dreamin” Keynote, inspired my previous work with Clyde Woods. Cal Maritime. June 17, 2022.
Fischer, D-E. Greg Tate Symposium at Stanford University Institute for Diversity Arts (with Shelley Nicole, dream hampton, Mark Anthony Neal and Adam Banks). June 1, 2022.
Fischer. D-E. “Hiphop and the Law” ( with andre douglas pond cummings, Atiba Ellis and Todd Clark, moderated by Jeff Prystowsky). Roger Williams University Law School. March 31, 2022. Post-Event Guide
Fischer, D-E. (moderating) Krip-Hop Panel with the Longmore Instittue and Poetry Center, March 5, 2022.
Fischer, D-E. “Asian & Black Unity & Division.” TrueSkool Radio hosted by Renthe Vinyl Archaeologist. Twitch.tv/trueskool. March 26, 2021.
Fischer, D-E. “Representation and Cultural Exchange in Anime and Animation.” The Intersection Podcast(Georgia State University). March 22, 2021.
Fischer, D-E. “Afrofuturism in Literature and Film.” African Studies Association Annual Teachers Workshop. November 14, 2020
Fischer, D-E. “Black, Femme and Animated!: Movements, Manga, Music” Chabot College Ethnic Studies Summit. April 29, 2020.
Fischer, D-E. “Representing the Unseen: Blackness in Anime, Manga.” Council on East AsianStudies Colloquium Series. Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut. November 18, 2019.
Fischer, D-E. “Dr. Dawn-Elissa Fischer on Hip Hop, Education and Global Feminism.” (with DJ Kuttin Kandi). Hiphop Bruha: Bruha Politics on Hip Hop, Pop-Culture and Feminism. Podcast Webpage.Transcript. Spotify. July 6, 2019. [In this interview, we reference our NCORE presentation]
Fischer, D-E. “Hip Hop and Imperialism.” (with Aisha Fukushima, Rocky Rivera, DJ Kuttin Kandi and Geo [of the award-winning ‘Blu Scholars’ Hip Hop Group]). National Conference of Race and Ethnicity. Portland, Oregan. May 2019.
Fischer, D-E. “Black History Month Hip Hop Lecture.” Chegg. Santa Clara, California. February 2019.
Fischer, D-E. “’Mask Off So We Can See’: Courage, Conscience and Coalitions in Hip Hop.” Courage,Conscience and Coalitions: MLK Youth Conference. The Thacher School. Ojai, California. January 20, 2019.
Fischer, D-E. “Look Back to Move Forward: 50 Years of Black Studies,” Plenary Lecture, College ofInterdisciplinary Studies, Purdue University, November 30, 2018
Fischer, D-E. “50 Years of Black Studies: Intellectual Histories and Institutional Demands,” ClosingRoundtable with Greg Carr and Valerie Grimm, College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Purdue University, December 1, 2018
Fischer, D-E. “Black Arts, Black Music, Black Studies: A Special Panel Honoring the 50th Anniversary ofBlack Studies in the Bay Area,” Roundtable with Jakeya Caruthers, Adam Banks, Greg Tate, Shelley Nicole, Andre LaSalle and Vernon Reid, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, October 30, 2018
Fischer, D-E. Post-Screening Dialogue (with Mahalet Gezachew and Boots Riley). Sorry to Bother You: Black Studies 50th Anniversary Advance Screening of Film for SF State Community and Friends atthe Roxy Theatre with support from Annapurna Pictures, San Francisco, California. May 17, 201
Fischer, D-E. “African American Digital Scholarship,” Symposium, Wallenberg Learning Theater: Building160, Stanford University, Stanford, California. April 28, 2018
Fischer, D-E. “This is How We Win…” Black History Month Kick Off Keynote. City Hall Rotunda. Society forAfrican American Culture and History (SFAACHS). February 1, 2018.
Fischer, D-E. “Crisis of the Black Intellectual: The Legacy of Harold Cruse, 1967-2017.” Presentation at theSymposium, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California. November 18, 2017.
Fischer, D-E. “Mbongi Talk: Harlem2Tokyo,” with Cheryl Fischer, Department of Africana Studies. SanFrancisco State University, San Francisco. California, September 19, 2017.
Fischer, D-E. “Mbongi Talk: Decoding AfroAsia in Anime and Manga,” Department of Africana Studies. SanFrancisco State University, San Francisco, California. February 28, 2017
Fischer, D-E. “Hip Hop’s Critical Gender Politics,” Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts, November 10, 2016.
Fischer, D-E. “Anthropology and #BlackLivesMatter,” with Gina Athena Ulysse and Bianca Williams. WesleyanUniversity, Middleton, Connecticut. November 1, 2016.
Fischer, D-E. “Love and Hiphop: New Orleans (Title IX and Sexuality Rights),” Dillard University, New Orleans,Louisiana. October 28, 2016.
Fischer, D-E. “Blackademics TV,” Season Two, Episode One. KLRU (PBS) University of Texas- Austin, Austin,Texas. October 17, 2015.
Fischer, D-E. “Blackness and Race Politics in Japanese Hip-Hop,” Presented at the University of Arizona.Tucson, AZ. February 6, 2014.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Presentations:
Fischer, D-E. 2022. “Anime Rap: Revisiting the work of Representation.” To be presented at the panel, “Are You Unsettled?” Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Seattle, WA. November 9.
Fischer, D-E. 2021b “ABA@50: A Roundtable Conversation on the Association of Black Anthropologists and its Impact on the Discipline of Anthropology.” Sponsored by the Association of Black Anthropologists. Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Baltimore, MD: November 20.
Fischer, D-E. 2021a. “Actualized Truths, Global Inheritances: Black Youth Practice Digital Diaspora” Co-sponsored/reviewed by the Association of Black Anthropologists & Association for Africanist Anthropology. Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Baltimore, MD: November 17.
Fischer, D-E. 2019c “Battling for My Black Baby (and Yours): Black California Dreams and Nightmares from the Frontline of Educational Equity in the Far West.” Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Vancouver, BC. November 21.
Fischer, D-E. 2019b “Black Buddhists: Justice, Value-Creating Pedagogy and Diaspora” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African Diaspora (ASWAD). Williamsburg, VA. November 7.
Fischer, D-E. 2019a. “Representing the Unseen: Black Femme and Animated.” Feminist World-Building in Japanese Cinema / Building Feminist Worlds in Japanese Cinema. University of California, San Diego. May 3.
Fischer, D-E. 2018c “We The People? Feeling Racism in Hip Hop,” Paper presented for a Thematic Session at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. August 13.
Fischer, D-E. 2018b “Hiphop Language Ideology and Movements for Black Studies - 50 Years Later,” Paper presented for “We Got It From Here”: Language, Identity, and Global Hiphop.” Annual meetings of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL). Chicago, IL. March 24.
Fischer, D-E. 2018a “Black Buddhists: Hiphop, Value Creation and Social Justice in African Diasporic Communities,” Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Council for Black Studies. Atlanta, GA. March 17.
Fischer, D-E. 2017b. Making Anthropology Matter--Teaching Race as an Act of Resistance. Roudtable convened by Dr. Nicole Truesdell. Peer-reviewed Roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. December
Fischer, D-E. 2017a. Manga, Music, Media: An AfroAsian Remix? “In Media’s Race: Black Embodiments Present and Future,” Paper Presented as Part of Peer-reviewed Roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. December 1.
Fischer, D-E. 2016 “Home Away from Home: African American Migration Abroad” for ASA International Committee: Talkshop at the annual meetings of the American Studies Association, Denver, Colorado. November 17.
Fischer, D-E. 015b. “Hiphop Womanist Inquiry,” Paper presented at the annual conference for the Association for the Study of African Life and History, Atlanta, Georgia. September 24.
Fischer, D-E. 2015a. “Doing Feminist Work.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the National Council of Black Studies. Los Angeles, CA. March.
Fischer, D-E. 2014b. “Place, Memory, and Preservation in Post-Civil Rights Black Philadelphia.” Discussant, Chair, Paper for the annual conference for the Association for the Study of African Life and History, Memphis, TN. September 27.
Fischer, D-E. 2014a. “How Hiphop Renders Race and Racism.” In Engaging Race and Racism in the New Millineum: exploring visibilities and invisibilities (IUAES/ JASCA joint panel) Convened by Yasuko Takezawa and Faye Harrison with John G Russell as Discussant/ Respondent. May 17, 2014.
Fischer, D-E. 2013.“This Bridge Called Hiphop: Emic Perspectives of Global Hiphop Organizing for Equity and Social Justice.” International Symposium for Hip Hop and Social Justice. Organizers: Heike Raphael-Henrandez and Eva Kimminich. VW Foundation. Hannover, Germany, September 11-14, 2013.
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Where Hokusai and Hip-Hop Intersect (Review) by Renny Pritikin in SquareCylinder (OCTOBER 2, 2023)
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Hip-hop turns 50: A look at the past, present and future of the global phenomenon “Under the Radar” hosted by Callie Crossley for GBH/ WGBH radio (aired August 11, 2023,NPR) – there is a written synopsis by Jesse Steinmetz and Mariam Hydara as well as a link to the audio/ listen
Transformative Conversations Kick Off: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip Hop in the Academy, John N. Gardner Institute hosted by Monica Flippin Wynn (AVP)