“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.” ThinkingWayWritingBookDifferentCountryMatterKidsAmericaRaceGenerationsColorRaisesAgreeHip HopHipsPostsDifferent WaysHopsSegregationProcessingMillenniumRaises Questions Author:Bakari Kitwana
“The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the surface people see hip-hop and race as nothing new. I think the ways young white Americans are engaging hip-hop suggest something more.” PeopleThinkingWayKidsAmericaYoungForceWhiteDealsRaceWeightHistoricalHip HopSurfaceHipsHopsEngagingNothing NewRace In AmericaKids Love Author:Bakari Kitwana
“After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.” ShouldYearsKidsCultureNationsSexLevelsRaceAcceptingShould HaveEverydayHip HopViolentLocalsHipsCorporateManifestationDistinctionHopsCommodityImageryPackagesSophisticationTerrainSensationalLive Everyday Author:Bakari Kitwana
