BOOK

Lee, Jooyoung. Blowing Up: Rap Dreams in Los Angeles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (under contract).

PUBLICATIONS

Lee, Jooyoung. (forthcoming, 2012). “Wounded: Life After the Shooting,” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 

Alim, H. Samy; Lee, Jooyoung; and Lauren Mason. 2011. “Moving the crowd, ‘crowding’ the emcee: The coproduction and contestation of black normativity in freestyle rap battles,” Discourse & Society 22(4): 422-439. pdf

Lee, Jooyoung. 2010. ‘Blowing Up’ at Project Blowed: Rap Dreams and Young Black Men. In Black LA: American Dreams and Racial Realities, eds. Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon,  117-139. New York: NYU Press.

+Book reviewed in Los Angeles Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/08/    entertainment/la-ca-black-los-angeles-book-20100808

Alim, H. Samy; Lee, Jooyoung; and Lauren Mason (equal co-authors). 2010. "‘Short Fried-Rice-Eating Chinese MCs’ and ‘Good-Hair-Havin Uncle Tom Niggas’: Performing Race and Ethnicity in Freestyle Rap Battles," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20(1): 116-133. pdf

Lee, Jooyoung. 2009. "Battlin' on the Corner: Techniques for Sustaining Play," Social Problems 56(3): 578-598. pdf

    *ASA Graduate Student Paper Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section, 2007

    *SSSP Graduate Student Paper Award, Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Section, 2007

    *ASA Graduate Student Paper Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, 2007 (Second Place)

Lee, Jooyoung. 2009. "Escaping Embarrassment: Face-Work in the Rap Cipher," Social Psychology Quarterly 72(4): 306-324. pdf

    *ASA Graduate Student Paper Award, Social Psychology Section, 2008 (Honorable Mention)

    +”E-SPQ” link

Lee, Jooyoung. 2009. "Open mic: Professionalizing the rap career," Ethnography 10(4): 475-495.

Lee, Jooyoung. 2008. Gangsta Rap in The Encyclopedia of Social Problems, ed. Vincent Parrillo, 388-389. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Lee, Jooyoung. 2007. “Exploring Multiple Dimensions of Race and Violence in Los Angeles.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 31(3): 683-6.

UNDER REVIEW AND IN PROGRESS

Lee, Jooyoung. "Out of Work: Rap Dreams and Strategic Joblessness Amongst Urban Poor Men,” revise and resubmit. 

    *ASA Graduate Student Paper Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, 2008 (Second Place)

Lee, Jooyoung. Wounded: The Aftermath of Gun Violence (book manuscript in preparation).

Lee, Jooyoung. “The Pill Hustle.”