books by Bakari Kitwana (violence selected wangstas)

books by Bakari Kitwana

books:

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

8 reviews
Bakari Kitwana

Basic Civitas Books, 2005

response to lack of culture
You're an idiot. It would literally take me 3 days to write about how wrong you are. So instead I'll paraphrase for your simple, narrow mind. To say that hip hop is all about blaming whitey over a congo beat might be the most ignorant thing I have ever heard. HIP HOP is a culture, RAP is a genre of music. You are referring to RAP, not hip hop. But even then, not all RAP is what you are ...

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

1 review
Bakari Kitwana

Basic Civitas Books, 2006

Great Primer on Hip Hop--Race Relations
This book offers a non-academic analysis of hip hop and why white kids love all aspects of hip hop culture. The book also uses hip hop as a lens to examine race relations in the US. This is not a dry, academic read, and it is well-researched without listing the litany of facts. The book is written for a lay audience. Parents might find this useful to get a "handle" on their kids' fascination ...

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

10 reviews
Kitwana, Bakari Kitwana

Basic Civitas Books, 2003

I highly recommend this book
I highly recommend this book in order to understand the post civil-rights black african american situation. Because of the interesting topic and writing style this book was a pretty quick read. Kitwana clarified so many issues: the unemployment crisis, the prison industry, mandatory minimum jail sentences, the drug war as a means to target black men, the gender war between black men and black ...

The Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It?: Gangsta Rap and Visions of Black Violence
Bakari Kitwana

Third World Press, 1994

This book is a critical review of the highly explosive and widely discussed musical art form called gangsta rap. Kitwana examines the ways Black culture, male-female relationships, sexism, white supremacy (racism), and gun violence converge in this controversial music form.

Groundwork: New and Selected Poems, Don L. Lee/Haki R. Madhubuti from 1966 - 1996
Haki R. Madhubuti

Third World Press, 1996

Thirty years of poems and a few essays of Don L. Lee beginning in the militant Black Arts Movement and metamorphosing into the more mature yet critical voice of Lee as Haki R. Madhubuti. The subject is consistently political and poetic as it challenges the people of the world to rights the wrongs committed against Black people and all oppressed people of the world.