Scooter Pégram

Pégram, Scooter. (2024). “Trading Baguettes For Arepas: How Hardcore French Hip‐Hop Artists Are Using Medellin and Colombia to Imitate/Emulate The Violent Hypermasculine Tropes of Pablo Escobar in Order to Exude Toughness in Rap Videos.” Popular Culture Review. 1–12.

Pégram, Scooter. (2024). Check the Rhyme y’all; Life as a Shorty Shouldn’t be so Rough: How hip-hop songs can be used as pedagogical tools to teach grammar/culture and ease comprehension in a French as a Second Language Classroom. Perspectives In Learning, 21 (1).

Pégram, Scooter. (2024). “Will They Always Have Paris?”: Observing, Understanding, and Informally Engaging with Undocumented African Souvenir Sellers at the Eiffel Tower. World, 5, pages 394-412.

Pégram, Scooter. (2024). “What was, no longer is: The time has come for French as a second language educators (FLE) to decolonise their curricula and diversify their classroom lessons.” Journal of Language Teaching, Volume 4(2), pages 1-11. 

Pégram, Scooter. (2022). “Protecting planet Mars: How hip-hop artists from Marseille defend the voiceless from gentrification and redevelopment as they safeguard and promote the city in order to keep the peace.” Journal of European Popular Culture, Volume 13, Number 1, pages 23-40 (18)

Pégram, Scooter. (2021). “Rhymin’ to (re)discover one’s Africainité: How racism and exclusion in France is thematically inspiring French hip-hop artists to rap about the roots of their bi-cultural duality.” Ethnic Studies Review, Volume 45, Issue 1, pages 75-95.

Pégram, Scooter. (2020). “Pris pour cible dans la banlieue: Self-identity, Language maintenance, Racism and Exclusion amongst African youths in the Paris suburbs.” Ethnicities, Volume 20, Issue 1, pages 93-114.

Pégram, Scooter. (2019). “Respectez-nous as we feminise the rhyme: Women rappers and gender empowerment in France.” Popular Culture Review, Volume 30, Number 1, pages 53-94.

Pégram, Scooter. (2017). “Feminizing the Narrative: Women Rappers and Gender Empowerment in French Hip-Hop.” Parameters of the Possible, 11, 59-69. [Peer Reviewer Conference Proceedings. Southwestern Anthropological Association].

Pégram, Scooter. (2014). “Navigating behind Shadows of Steel: The Convergence and Divergence of Identity and Languages among Latino Youth in Northwest Indiana.” Journal of the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences, Volume 17, pages 97-116.

Pégram, Scooter. (2012) “Rapping to Represent and Resist: Language, Lyrics and Young Haitian Males in Early Québec Hip-Hop.” Wadabagei: International Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas, Volume 13, Number 3, pages 50-73. New York: Lexington Press.

Pégram, Scooter. (2012). “Philosophers and Poets of the Periphery: Educational Revision, Cultural Resistance and Community Resilience in French Hip-Hop.” Journal for the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Volume 16, Issue 2, pages 35-51.

Pégram, Scooter. (2011). “Not ‘Condemned to Fail,’ Examples of Community Pride and Social Uplift in French Rap,” in Journal of Poetry Therapy, Volume 24, Number 4, pages 239-253, London: Taylor & Francis.

Pégram, Scooter. (2008).  “Dancing their way into English: Language preservation and Language Shift among Latina females in Northwest Indiana.” Journal for the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Volume 13, Edition 1, pages 107-115.

Pégram, Scooter. (2008). “Meshing in, not Melting Away: Identity and Language Shift among young Haitian Females in Québec.” Journal of the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences, Volume 11, pages 44-61.

Pégram, Scooter & Gunn, John W. (2007). “Hey, hey, hey (yo): The Real Fat Albert speaks Ebonics (and he ain’t no knucklehead).” Mohamed, Theresa (ed.) Essays in Response to Bill Cosby’s Comments on African American Failure. Lewiston, Maine: Edwin Mellen Press.

Pégram, Scooter. (2005).Choosing Their Own Style: Identity Emergence among Haitian Youth in Québec. Peter Lang Publishers, New York.

Pégram, Scooter. (2005). “Being Ourselves: Immigrant Culture and Self-Identification among Young Haitians in Montréal.” Ethnic Studies Review, Volume 28, pages 1-20.