Kitwana
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Bakari Kitwana, an expert on hip-hop and youth culture, will be discussing his forthcoming book, Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop, at an appearance at IU East Wednesday, March 23. The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. in Vivian Auditorium in Whitewater Hall.
Kitwana is a nationally known figure in the field of hip-hop and politics. He is a freelance columnist for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and his essays have been published in the Village Voice, the New York Times, Crisis Magazine and Sojourners.
He is the author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture, published in 2002. Kitwana explored how youth born between 1965 and 1984 are speaking politically and socially through hip-hop. Throughout the book, he examines the increasing numbers of incarcerated blacks, unemployment and a number of other issues facing African Americans today. He is the co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention, a national organization which adopts and endorses a political agenda and develops leadership for people of the hip-hop generation.
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