... . Nonetheless hip-hop has its roots unquestionably within the black community and represents a relevant subculture in African-American youths. Therefore hip-hop should be considered beyond its original status of a genre but as an essential learning tool to understand a consistently misunderstood and isolated faction of people. The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not ... just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not ...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the United States is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse nations in the world, film and television images often tell a different story. While improvements have been made over the last several decades in the way African-americans are portrayed in the media, the entertainment industry ... only are they curious to explore, they"re also usually not even smart enough to run as fast as possible out of harm's way. Horror movies is not the only genre that has the problem of misrepresentation of blacks. One need only turn on the television and tune to public television station...

• Word Count: 516
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate