(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Is Gangsta Rap just black noise Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America This provocative set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to listen.

(Hardback)

Exploring the basic conflict between the legal equality that black men possess as US citizens and their social isolation stemming from white America's perceptions of them as "culturally alien," the author sets out to change the negative images and stereotypes that indicate a fundamental defect in the mainframe of American culture.

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(Hardback)

This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems.

Why are Black people stopped, arrested, and shot by police at such a high rate