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

This brilliantly provocative work is a focused, passionate, inspiring, and extremely thoughtful attempt not only to examine the problems facing young blacks, but also to point to a way out.--"Atlanta Journal-Constitution" 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 Gives His Own 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. By Turns Scathing, Funny, And Analytic, The Hip Hop Generation Will Stand As The Testament Of Black Youth Culture At The Turn Of The Century. With Insight And Understanding, Bakari Kitwana Has Combined The Culture And Politics Of His Generation Into A Pivotal Work In American Studies. 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 And 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. Bakari Kitwana. Includes Index. Frontmatter Preface (page xi) Acknowledgments (page xvii) Introduction: Confronting the Crises in African American Culture (page xix) Part 1 The New Crises in African American Culture 1 The New Black Youth Culture: The Emergence of the Hip-Hop Generation (page 3) 2 America's Outcasts: The Employment Crisis (page 25) 3 Race War: Policing, Incarceration, and the Containment of Black Youth (page 51) 4 Where Did Our Love Go? The New War of the Sexes (page 85) 5 Young, Don't Give a Fuck, and Black: Black Gangster Films (page 121) Part 2 Confronting the Crises in African American Culture 6 Activism in the Hip-Hop Generation: Redefining Social Responsiblity (page 145) 7 The Politics of the Hip-Hop Generation: Identifying a Political Agenda (page 175) 8 The Challenge of Rap Music: From Cultural Movement to Political Power (page 195) Index (page 217) 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. 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. This brilliantly provocative work is a focused, passionate, inspiring, and extremely thoughtful attempt not only to examine the problems facing young blacks, but also to point to a way out.-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution ASK ANY YOUNG BLACK AMERICAN BORN BETWEEN 1965 AND 1984 where they were on September 13, 1996, and most can tell you.