August 22, 2005
THIS IS A RE-BROADCAST
TOPIC: Why White Kids Love Hip hop
GUESTS: Bakari Kitwana, hip hop scholar and historian, author of “The Hip Hop Generation,” and “Why White Kids Love Hip hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America.”
While Hip Hop originated some decades ago directly out of African American neighborhoods in the South Bronx and caught fire among urban black youth, today it is a prominent part of American mainstream culture. Hip hop music is increasingly more popular with white youth in America and today we discuss the implications of that with hip hop scholar and activist Bakari Kitwana. Bakari Kitwana is author of “The Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It? : Gangsta Rap and Visions of Black Violence,” and the acclaimed “The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and The Crisis in African American Culture.” His latest book is “Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America.” In it he discusses the “old racial politics” of the older generation of activists versus the “new racial politics” of American youth.
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