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The hip hop generation : young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture / Bakari Kitwana.

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Young blacks born between 1965 and 1984 belong to the first generation to have grown up in post-segregation America. In this book Bakari Kitwana offers a sobering look at his generation's disproportionate incarceration and unemployment rates, as well as the collapse of its gender relations, and...

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Main Author: Kitwana, Bakari
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Civitas Books, ©2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Black thought and culture.
African American music reference.
Subjects:
African American youth > Social conditions.
African American youth > Social life and customs.
Hip-hop.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
Manners and customs.
Social conditions.
United States.
Table of 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 in the hip-hop generation : redefining social responsibility
  • The politics of the hip-hop generation : identifying a political agenda
  • The challenge of rap : from cultural movement to political power.

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