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

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 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.

ISBN-13: 9780465029792

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Civitas Book Publisher

Publication Date: 04-24-2003

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 8.12h x 5.42w x 0.68d

Bakari Kitwana was the Executive Editor of The Source from 1994-98; Editorial Director at Third World Press; and a music reviewer for NPR's All Things Considered. He currently freelances for the Village Voice, Savoy, the Source, and the Progressive, and his weekly column, Do the Knowledge, is published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He is the author of The Rap on Gangsta Rap and The Hip Hop Generation. He lives in Westlake, Ohio.