Kitwana, Bakari

Discusses what attracts white youths to hip-hop, examines the ways youths who love hip-hop view race, argues that young people have moved beyond the racial politics of their elders, and reflects upon how the hip-hop generation may change America and the world in the areas of race and human rights in the future.

A study of African-Americans born between 1965 and 1984, discussing the problems of racism, unemployment, educational disparity, police brutality, and others that plague the first generation to have grown up in a legally desegregated United States, and arguing that hip hop is the unifying force that could bring about a new phase of African-American empowerment.