Publications

Book

2021    Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture (University of Illinois Press)

Refereed Journal Articles

2018    “Redefined What Is Meant to be Divine: Prayer and Protest in Blue Scholars.” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 41, no. 3.

2017    “Nation in the Universe: The Cosmic Vision of Afro-Filipino Futurism.” Amerasia Journal 43, no. 2.

2016    “Currents of Militarization, Flows of Hip Hop: Expanding the Geographies of Filipino American Culture,” Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 19, Number 1

Edited Volumes

2014    Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America, edited by Mark R. Villegas, Kuttin Kandi, Roderick N. Labrador (San Diego: Cognella Publishing)

Book Chapters

2014    “Feel the Funk,” Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America, edited by Mark R. Villegas, Kuttin Kandi, Roderick N. Labrador (San Diego: Cognella Publishing)

2014    “In a Strange Land,” Empire of Funk: Hip Hop and Representation in Filipina/o America, edited by Mark R. Villegas, Kuttin Kandi, Roderick N. Labrador (San Diego: Cognella Publishing)

Book Reviews

2018    Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives, by Vince Schleitwiler. Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association 4, no. 2.

Encyclopedia Entries

2022    “Filipino Americans in Hip Hop,” “Dance Halls,” and “Filipinos in Florida.” Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies.

2018    St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture, “Reggaeton.” Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, a Cengage Company.

2010    “Filipino Turntablism/Mobile DJs,” The Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore (West Port, Connecticut: Greenwood Press)

Web-Based Publications

2018    “Re-envisioning Filipinos in Florida,” February 12, 2018, WJCT News (Jacksonville, FL public broadcasting)

2014    “The Digital Moves the Real: Students Document Ethnic Communities using Instagram,” American Studies Journal Blog, https://amsjournal.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/on-teaching-with-mark-redondo-villegas-the-digital-moves-the-real/

2010    “Lyrical Empire: Metro Manila Emcees Overcome Challenges In A Multilingual Nation,” Evil Monito, http://evilmonito.com/2010/04/30/lyrical-empire-metro-manila-emcees-overcome-challenges-in-a-multilingual-nation/