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The hip hop generation : young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture / Bakari Kitwana.
LIBRA E185.86 .K58 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kitwana, Bakari.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American youth--Social life and customs.
- African American youth.
- African American youth--Social conditions.
- Hip-hop.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social life and customs--1971-.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Civitas, [2002]
- Summary:
- A sobering look at the obstacles facing today's black youth, that asks, "can hip hop be this generation's salvation?"
- Contents:
- The new Black youth culture : the emergence of the hip-hop generation
- America's outcasts : the employment crisis
- Race war : policing, incarceration, and the containment of Black youth
- Where did our love go? : the new war of the sexes
- Young, don't give a fuck, and Black : Black gangster films
- Activism and the hip-hop generation : redefining social responsibility
- The politics of the hip-hop generation : identifying a political agenda
- The challenge of rap music : from cultural movement to political power.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0465029787
- OCLC:
- 49320326
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