Why white kids love hip hop
Subtitle: wankstas, wiggas, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America
By: Bakari Kitwana.
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Rap (Music) -- History and criticism; Rap (Music) -- Political aspects -- United States; Music and race
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Part 1. Questions. Do white boys want to be black? ; Why white kids love hip-hop ; More than acting black ; Erasing blackness ; Are white suburban kids really hip-hop's primary consumers?; title: Part 2. Answers. From W.E.B. Du Bois to Chuck D ; Wankstas, wiggas, and wannabes ; Hip-hop, film and white boyz in the hood ; Fear of a culture bandit ; Eminem, hip-hop and America's racial politics (old and new) ; Coalition building across race ; Organizing the hip-hop voting bloc; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.