The hip hop generation : young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kitwana, Bakari
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Civitas Books, ©2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Black thought and culture.
African American music reference.
Subjects:
Hip Hop
Since 1971
African American youth > Social conditions.
African American youth > Social life and customs.
Hip-hop.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > Teenagers.
African American youth > Social life and customs
Hip-hop
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Jugend
Soziale Situation
Jeugd.
Hiphop.
Subcultuur.
Zwarten.
Hip-hop culture.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
United States
Schwärze
USA
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
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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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