Uses of hip-hop for empowerment of black youths through racial authenticity, and positive racial socialization are observed. ... Nonetheless hip-hop has its roots unquestionably within the black community and represents a relevant subculture in African-American youths. ... Here we will consider hip-hops role in racial authenticity and its history of social empowerment for African-Americans, its role as a fundamental source of positive racial socialization for black youths and in what ways its elements can be utilized in classroom and therapeutic settings involving urban youth. ... African Am...
Hip-Hop prompted change and challenged the conservative system serving as a rebellion for the youth. ... The youth found hip-hop to be a platform that allowed them to express the anger towards the system not being scared to say what's on their minds. ... The youth have been blinded by the money, women, lavish lifestyle, and the obsession of keeping it "real". Now the vulgar language, murder, drugs, exploitation of women, and crime that are in the lyrics are seen as an acceptable behavior for the youth. ...
However, many black youth still suffer from slights within their own race about how light or dark they may be, how much money their parents make, and being black in general. Some of the upper class, lighter skinned black youths belittle their peers with a lower class status or darker complexion. ... Some black youths are raised to think that having light skin is one of the best things in the world. ... A dark-skinned black youth may think, based on their upbringing, that their dark skin is a social burden. A black youth's upbringing could make a higher class person feel superior and a...
Culture, the thing that defines a group of people, is truly interesting. Culture is a phenomenon that is directly linked with the development of its respective group of people. Furthermore a people's culture is expressed through its works, whether it be in politics, literature, athletics, or art. Art is a unique form of expression because humans can directly play on three of the human senses, sight, taste, and hearing. Among the three senses, hearing is the primary sense. ...
In "Crackling Day," a young black boy in South Africa challenges three white youths and, in so doing, challenges the political system of the whole country. ... The apartheid period in which both stories were based, did not just affect the black race, but it also affected the youth of the white. This cause the youths to feel separated from the rest of the world around them and to question their place in it. ...
This focuses on the youth's fight to gain freedom or break away from the values and ideas left behind by the older generation. ... They enabled the youths to escape to a different kind of world. Because of the youths' great desire to achieve a universal sense of peace and harmony, drugs were sometimes a very important part of one's life. ... This could almost be considered ironic in the sense that while trying to gain one freedom, the ability to use drugs, the youths appeared to have lost another freedom, the ability to live their own lives. ...
During the youth of Harry Crews, Jimmy Carter, and Jim Glass they all encounter different situations were they come to question their parent's ideas on the treatment of blacks. During Harry Crews youth, he is told that he is a superior to blacks but deep down he realizes they are the same as him. ... Harry believed that he " lived in a discoverable world, but that most of what we discover is an unfathomable mystery that we can name- even defend against- but never understand." (406) In the youth years of Jimmy Carter's life, his parents shaped Jimmy's ideas of black people ...
The change in gospel music has effected today's youth that have shown interest in the up beat sounds of gospel music. ... The way the message is brought to the youth today is through using jazzier beats and hip-hop tunes to get their attention. ... Even as the newer sounds make their way across territories, which in the past years was reserved for secular music, has youth today demanding for the need for more hip-hop gospel music. ... They are telling the youth the very same things that parents told them. ...
However, he was mostly proud of his involvement in the community and working with youth. ... Due to his efforts and experiences in the community, primarily mentoring and tutoring youth, he decided to change his major and focus to Education. ...
In a diverse and constantly changing society, the issue of censoring classic literatures has long been controversial; does the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn perpetuate racism, or does it have literature value? The contentious novel is criticized by the Concord Public Library as "more suited ...
In addition to this violence, in 2011 there was an epidemic of suicides among LGBTQ youth. The Suicide Prevention Resource Center even estimates that between 30 and 40% of LGBTQ youth have attempted suicide (Trevor Project). According to the Trevor Project, the national leading organization providing crisis intervention for LGBTQ youth, "more than 34,000 people die by suicide each year, making it the third leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year olds, with lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth attempting suicide up to four times more than their heterosexual peers" (Trevor Project). ...
The article Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria gives us a different perspective on why black youths tend to associate with each other youths of their race, versus going outside of their comfort. It also explains identity development in adolescence, helps us understand how adolescents cope with racist encounters, how academic achievement is viewed amongst black youths, and why adolescents search for alternative images or role models. ...
Many kinds of music have come out on the American stage within the last 100 or so and have had a great impact on it. American music is extremely varied and diverse. Instead of being dominated by the cultures and traditions of any one particular country (i.e. England or Germany), it is the proverbial...
While African American youth represents 17% of their age group within the general population, they represent 46% of juvenile arrests (The Sentencing Project 2008). ... (Marc Mauer Congressional Testimony for The Sentencing Project (2009))Whilst African American juvenile youth is 16% of the population, they are 28% of juvenile arrests, 37% of the youth in juvenile jails and an astonishing 58% of the youth sent to adult prisons. (2009 Criminal Justice Primer, The Sentencing Project). ...
Hip-hop now only focuses on things that will pass in time and the youth today think that material things is all that it's about and there is some much more to it than that. ... Violence in the main element in gangster rap, these lyrical poets do have talent but if they could stray from lyrics about killing, they would receive more respect. " African-American youth nihilism stemmed from the rise in police brutality, the crack cocaine epidemic, and its prison industrial complex counterpart." ... They know the influence they had on today's youth but they feel it necessary to repeatedly ...
Its main duty was to give the neglected African American youths that had been cast out from attending any other schools in the states. ... Another school, that still stands today, holds its roots into the educating of young black youths, and that is Central High School. ... Central Colored High School offered a variety of courses for the youth. ...
Racism in America There is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater horror than the United States. Racism occurs daily in America. It occurs in the convenient store, the office, at school, etc. What is racism exactly. Dictionaries are not much help on what is meant by th...
Jim Crow was the racial caste system of anti-black laws that categorized blacks as second-class citizens. The lecture by Professor Kreus was quite emotional with powerful examples of how whites were superior to Blacks in all important ways, including but not limited to intelligence, morality, and c...
Among all the controversial topics surrounding youth today, one stands out among the rest. To say that racism is a problem some of us have to face is an understatement. For all of us, it is a predominant issue in every area of life. Regardless of our race, we are all affected by this system of...
Parks worked with the NAACP Youth Council and was elected as secretary of the Montgomery branch in 1943. ... She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development in 1988, to train African American youth for roles in leadership, and became the institute's president. ...
Because of the baby boom after World War II, the culture in the 1960's was very focused upon America's youth. ... Music was a huge part of American youth culture in the 60s; some of the most popular bands were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, this brought a more peaceful culture to America. ...
The Many Aspects of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, an author of many writings, uses his voice well, the most important tool an author has. To understand Langston Hughes, the reader must first understand the time-period he wrote in, and the movement he was a part of. Hughes was part of the "Har...
Throughout the world today many black youth are being killed by the people who are suppose to protect and serve us. ... Another thing is white cops are institutionally racist because if they see black youth in wrong areas that means they are criminals. 92.7 percent of all people arrested by the Ferguson police department were black and only 6.9 percent were white. ...