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

by Kitwana, Bakari

• ISBN13: 9780465029792
• ISBN10: 0465029795
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-24
• Publisher: Civitas Books

Summary

The Hip Hop Generationis 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.

Author Biography

Bakari Kitwana was the Executive Editor of The Source from 1994-98; Editorial Director at Third World Press; and a music reviewer for NPR's All Things Considered. He currently freelances for the Village Voice, Savoy, The Source, and the Progressive, and his weekly column, "Do the Knowledge," is published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He is the author of The Rap on Gangsta Rap and The Hip Hop Generation. He lives in Westlake, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Introduction: Confronting the Crises in African American Culture	xix
Part 1 The New Crises in African American Culture
The New Black Youth Culture: The Emergence of the Hip-Hop Generation	3	(22)
America's Outcasts: The Employment Crisis	25	(26)
Race War: Policing, Incarceration, and the Containment of Black Youth	51	(34)
Where Did Our Love Go? The New War of the Sexes	85	(36)
Young, Don't Give a Fuck, and Black: Black Gangster Films	121	(24)
Part 2 Confronting the Crises in African American Culture
Activism in the Hip-Hop Generation: Redefining Social Responsibility	145	(30)
The Politics of the Hip-Hop Generation: Identifying a Political Agenda	175	(20)
The Challenge of Rap Music: From Cultural Movement to Political Power	195	(22)
Index	217