Bibliograph

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop, Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Type

Label

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop, Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Summary

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop addresses uncomfortable truths about America's level of comfort with black people and challenges preconceived notions of race

Table Of Contents

Preface; Introduction: Toward a New Racial Politics; {PART ONE} Questions: Do White Boys Want to Be Black? Unpacking Race in a Hip-Hop World; 1: Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop; 2: Identity Crisis? More Than Acting Black; 3: Erasing Blackness: Are White Suburban Kids Really Hip-Hop's Primary Audience?; {PART TWO} Answers: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Chuck D; 4: Wankstas, Wiggers and Wannabes: Hip-Hop, Film and White Boyz in the Hood; 5: Fear of a Culture Bandit: Eminem, the Source and America's Racial Politics (Old and New)6: Coalition Building Across Race: Organizing the Hip-Hop Voting BlocAcknowledgments; Index

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