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Straight Outta Fresno Presents: Battle for Fresno State, Championship Round

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The Battle for Fresno State, Championship round will host a panel discussion on Fresno hip-hop history including some […]

Guest April 14, 2018 California, dance, Fresno, hip-hop, Straight Outta Fresno

On the Front Porch: Deborah McCoy and Fresno Streetdance

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Hit it. The street is Poplar, central Fresno. The year is 1976, ‘77, ‘78. The familiar popping of […]

Guest April 3, 2018 African American history, dance, Fresno, hip-hop, music, Straight Outta Fresno

Straight Outta Fresno Presents: The Judges of the Battle for Fresno State

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If a bboy/bgirl battle’s dopeness is judged by the quality of its judges, then the Battle for Fresno […]

Guest February 2, 2018 dance, Fresno, hip-hop, music

Defying Gravity, Breakin’ Boundaries: The Rise of Fresno’s Climax Crew

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In the early 1990s a ten-year-old boy sat on the roof of his grandmother’s home in Southeast Fresno, […]

Guest January 25, 2018 Chicano, Chicano history, dance, Fresno, hip-hop, Mexican Americans, music, Straight Outta Fresno

Straight Outta Fresno: How the Popping Dance Movement Empowered Youth of Color

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As its name suggests, popping is a dance style defined by the popping of one’s muscles and joints. […]

Guest November 27, 2017 dance, Fresno, hip-hop, race

South of Shaw: Introducing Straight Outta Fresno

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“Pretend,” we instruct our students, “that you have been hired by Fresno City to make postcards, visuals that […]

Guest October 31, 2017 hip-hop, music, popping, public history, Straight Outta Fresno

Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist During World War II

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Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) was a world-renowned choreographer who broke many barriers of race and gender, most notably as […]

Joanna Dee Das June 19, 2017 book excerpt, dance, foreign policy, race, radical politics

Smurfs, Wizards, and the History of Hmong B-Boy Culture in Southeast Fresno

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Hip-hop’s founding myth places the culture’s birth at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, where on a summer […]

Guest March 31, 2017 Asian American history, Asian Americans, California, dance, Fresno, hip-hop, music, Straight Outta Fresno

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