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Author Kitwana, Bakari.

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

Publication Info. New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2005]
©2005

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  782.4216 KI    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 222 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Subject Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
Rap (Music) -- Political aspects -- United States.
Music and race.
ISBN 0465037461 hardcover alkaline paper
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