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

Title
Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America / Bakari Kitwana.
Author
Kitwana, Bakari.
Publication
New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2005.

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Description
xvii, 222 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Rap (Music) > History and criticism
  • Rap (Music) > Political aspects > United States
  • Music and race
Note
  • Includes index.
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.
Call Number
Sc D 05-1230
ISBN
0465037461 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005003553
OCLC
57625719
Author
Kitwana, Bakari.
Title
Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America / Bakari Kitwana.
Imprint
New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2005.
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Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 05-1230
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