Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America / Bakari Kitwana.
Our national conversation about race is out-of-date. Hip-hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Kitwana teases apart the culture of hip-hop to illuminate how race is being lived by young Americans. He...
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New York :
Basic Civitas Books,
[2005], ©2005.
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 222 pages ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. Questions. Do white boys want to be black? ; Why white kids love hip-hop ; Identity crisis? : more than acting black ; Erasing blackness : are white suburban kids really hip-hop's primary audience?
- Part 2. Answers. From W.E.B. Du Bois to Chuck D ; Wankstas, wiggers, and wannabes : hip-hop, film and white boyz in the hood ; Fear of a culture bandit : Eminem, the source and America's racial politics (old and new) ; Coalition building across race : organizing the hip-hop voting bloc
- Acknowledgments
- Index.