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

Bakari Kitwana; Kitwana
Hachette Book Group
9780465029792
0-465-02979-5

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.

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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.