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2/18/08

'Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop': Contemporary Issues Forum At SLU

CANTON - Bakari Kitwana, author and co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, will give a talk titled "Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wangsters, Wiggers and Wanabees, The New Reality of Race in America" at St. Lawrence University on Tuesday, February 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Eben Holden. The event, part of the University's Contemporary Issues Forum, is open to the public, free of charge.

The author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture, Kitwana also writes a column on hip-hop and youth culture called "Do the Knowledge" for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and is a consultant on hip-hop for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also the author of The Rap on Gangsta Rap (Third World Press, 1994) and has been a visiting scholar in the political science department at Kent State University. In addition, Kitwana has lectured on hip-hop at colleges and universities across the country, including Harvard University, New York University, Columbia University and Stanford University.

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