Am I Black Enough for You?: Popular Culture from the Hood and Beyond

by Todd Boyd

Book Overview

The most creative moments of African American culture have always emanated from a lower class or "ghetto" perspective. In contemporary society, this ghetto aesthetic has informed a large segment of the popular marketplace from the incendiary nature of gangsta rap, through the choreographed violence of films like Menace II Society, to recurrent debates around the use of the word "nigga," and even the assertion of this perspective in professional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253211050
• ISBN13: 9780253211057
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"