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Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America
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Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America

Author: Bakari Kitwana
Publisher: New York : Basic Civitas Books, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Our national conversation about race is out-of-date.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 poses and answers a plethora of questions, among them: Does hip-hop belong to black kids? What in hip-hop appeals to  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bakari Kitwana
ISBN: 0465037461 9780465037469 9780465037476 046503747X
OCLC Number: 57625719
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xvii, 222 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Bakari Kitwana.
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Addresses uncomfortable truths about America's level of comfort with black people, challenging preconceived notions of race. With this tour de force, the author takes his place alongside the greatest  Read more...

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"A well-researched, thought provoking and ultimately convincing narrative that explores why hip-hop has had such a lasting impact on youth culture." Time Out New York"

 
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