Anthony Kwame Harrison is a cultural anthropologist teaching in the Department of Sociology and program in Africana Studies at Virginia Tech, where he serves as the Gloria D. Smith Professor. His research examines processes of racialization in spaces of leisure and popular music scenes. He is the author of Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification (Temple University Press, 2009) and has published widely on qualitative research methodologies. A winner of numerous teaching awards, Kwame teaches graduate level qualitative research methods and the history of sociological thought.