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Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet - America's New Dilemma (Hardcover)
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Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet - America's New Dilemma (Hardcover)
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Is Gangsta Rap just black noise? Or does it play the same role for
urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America? This provocative
set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about
an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to
listen. Increasingly, police, politicians, and late-night talk show
hosts portray today's inner cities as violent, crime-ridden war
zones. The same moral panic that once focused on blacks in general
has now been refocused on urban spaces and the black men who live
there, especially those wearing saggy pants and hoodies. The media
always spotlights the crime and violence, but rarely gives airtime
to the conditions that produced these problems. The dominant
narrative holds that the cause of the violence is the pathology of
ghetto culture. Hip-hop music is at the center of this
conversation. When 16-year-old Chicago youth Derrion Albert was
brutally killed by gang members, many blamed rap music. Thus
hip-hop music has been demonized not merely as black noise but as a
root cause of crime and violence. Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet:
America's New Dilemma explores-and demystifies-the politics in
which the gulf between the inner city and suburbia have come to
signify not only a socio-economic dividing line, but a new
socio-cultural divide as well. A chronological account of
development of rap music going back to the era of slavery Drawings
and editorial cartoons A multicultural bibliography containing
sociological, historical, and legal materials A glossary of many
key terms such as "structural racism" and "governmentalism"
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