The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture - Softcover

Kitwana, Bakari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465029795 ISBN 13: 9780465029792

Publisher: Civitas Books, 2003

Synopsis

The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American empowerment.

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Review:

"A must-read for those interested in hip-hop."

"While Kitwana makes clear arguments about what has affected Black youth over the last twenty years, from lock-ups to loitering laws, he doesn't simply enumerate the issues on a continuous loop, he looks toward solutions."

Synopsis:

For black youth, can hip hop can be this generation's salvation? Young blacks born between 1965 and 1984 belong to the first generation to have grown up in post-segregation America. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's cultural critics, offers a sobering look at his generation's disproportionate incarceration and unemployment rates, as well as the collapse of its gender relations, and gives his own provocative social and political analysis. He finds the pain of his generation buried in tough, slick gangsta movies, and their voice in the lyrics of rap music, "the black person's CNN".

About this edition

• Publisher: Civitas Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0465029795
• ISBN 13: 9780465029792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256