Kitwana's Influence On American Culture

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The main issue as it relates to black culture and is present in Kitwana’s book on the topic of white youth listening to hip-hop. The problem, in detail, is how the American youth are consuming hip-hop at a rate in which the merging of cultures is becoming more apparent. According to Kitwana, the reason for the interest of hip-hop is “not only hip-hop’s message of resistance to the status quo that young Americans find welcoming” but because of the hip-hop cultural movement that opened, “a new arena of public space…for young people to come together at local and national levels” (Kitwana, xiv). It seemed like it was by coming together that black culture has impacted the white youth as well as influencing them too. Hip-hop is essentially a subculture

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