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Discusses a generation of African Americans born between 1965 and 1984, and considers its historical significance, disproportionate incarceration and unemployment rates, collapse of gender relations, and experience revealed by music.
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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.
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