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Bakari Kitwana knows his hip-hop. He is the hip-hop consultant for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland; wrote the definitive books on hip-hop, “The Rap on Gangsta Rap” and “The Hip-Hop Generation”; was the executive editor of The Source; lectures at universities around the country on both black culture and hip-hop; and recently wrote a book that looks at the absorption of hip-hop into mainstream culture, “Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wanksters, Wiggers, Wannabes and the New Reality of Race in America”.
Kitwana claims that hip-hop is responsible for white youth “processing race differently”, which as a result is affecting a certain amount of social change, similar to what happened during both abolition and the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Kitwana was initially inspired to look further into his book’s concept as a result of a quote from Northeastern University’s Professor Murray Foreman, who stated in his book “The Hood Comes First” that “the real test of white kids in hip-hop is what happens when the white kids growing up on hip-hop become police in black communities.”
Kitwana has been on a book tour this summer, and spoke at the University Book Store in Seattle last month.
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