Author: Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher: Articles-Garlan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher: Articles-Garlan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher: Articles-Garlan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher: Articles-Garlan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher: Articles-Garlan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: D. Marvin Jones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313395780
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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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.

Author: Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307555364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578

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In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life. Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the American Dream. Material goods came to embody the promise of America, and the power of consumers to purchase everything from vacuum cleaners to convertibles gave rise to the power of citizens to purchase political influence and effect social change. Yet despite undeniable successes and unprecedented affluence, mass consumption also fostered economic inequality and the fracturing of society along gender, class, and racial lines. In charting the complex legacy of our “Consumers’ Republic” Lizabeth Cohen has written a bold, encompassing, and profoundly influential book.

Author: G. P. Manat
Publisher: Nova Biomedical Books
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This book presents 2322 full citations of books from 1990-1993 including subject headings of books dealing with Black Americans. Full author and subject indexes are provided for easy access to this compilation. Entries cover topics as diverse as: civil war history, sports figures, literature, civil rights, movies and television, religion, culture, politics and government, social life and customs, arts and artists, philosophy.