Why White Kids Love Hip Hop Summary
White Boys Don't Necessarily want to be Black In Bakari Kitwana's book Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop, he share his views on why white kids love hip-hop, Kitwana also acknowledges the shifts in hip-hop from an old generations radical views of hip-hop into a new cultural movement were young whites begin emulating blacks as cool due to technology advances that has made Hip-Hop mainstream. Mainstream connects hip hop and popular culture which creates an acceptance for hip-hop and alters the way young Americans look at race, giving people around the world a chance to embrace Hip-Hop. In return creating new racial politics that help confront race as a National reality and move
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The author views explains that white kids are not necessarily trying to act black and copy the black culture because they only think it is cool but if you look at it on a deeper level white kids are embracing black culture because they actually know black people and study the culture or they sympathize with the struggle and want to identify with something outside Americans mainstream society. Kitwana states that the growing sense of alienation from mainstream America drew the first wave of white kids to Hip-Hop in 1980. Life in 1980s became hard for young whites, blacks, and Latino Americans in the working class and middle class to obtain a job, due to economic and social hardships of declining wages and decling job options due to a need for skilled workers. The upper -middle-class lifestyle remained unattainable due to the raise in educational cost making it almost impossible for middle class to afford an education. Parents were now spending more time at work so they could make ends meet and less quality time with their children. The alienated generation with less privileged white Americans opened the door for different races facing the same struggles to take refuge in hip-hops response to hard times and allowed them to go against the status quo. The government form of assistance to troubled youth was offered in medication or
The author views explains that white kids are not necessarily trying to act black and copy the black culture because they only think it is cool but if you look at it on a deeper level white kids are embracing black culture because they actually know black people and study the culture or they sympathize with the struggle and want to identify with something outside Americans mainstream society. Kitwana states that the growing sense of alienation from mainstream America drew the first wave of white kids to Hip-Hop in 1980. Life in 1980s became hard for young whites, blacks, and Latino Americans in the working class and middle class to obtain a job, due to economic and social hardships of declining wages and decling job options due to a need for skilled workers. The upper -middle-class lifestyle remained unattainable due to the raise in educational cost making it almost impossible for middle class to afford an education. Parents were now spending more time at work so they could make ends meet and less quality time with their children. The alienated generation with less privileged white Americans opened the door for different races facing the same struggles to take refuge in hip-hops response to hard times and allowed them to go against the status quo. The government form of assistance to troubled youth was offered in medication or