Thursday, January 15, 2004
Flaskaland sees what life is like outside the cyberworld.
An explanation of the sweeping popularity of hip-hop:
"In the latest exasperating challenge to adult society, black rage is in as a cultural style for white middle-class kids. As in the sixties, when the sons and daughters of the middle class tossed out their tweed jackets and ladylike sheath dresses for the generational uniform of Levi's and work shirts and peacoats in their celebration of blue collar workers, "the Real Americans," so today's adolescents have co-opted inner-city black street-style as the authentic way to be. To act black, as the kids define it, is to be strong, confrontational, a little scary."
(Oh, there's more than that, too in "Selling Sex and Corruption to Your Kids").
¶ 1/15/2004 10:15:00 AM
An explanation of the sweeping popularity of hip-hop:
"In the latest exasperating challenge to adult society, black rage is in as a cultural style for white middle-class kids. As in the sixties, when the sons and daughters of the middle class tossed out their tweed jackets and ladylike sheath dresses for the generational uniform of Levi's and work shirts and peacoats in their celebration of blue collar workers, "the Real Americans," so today's adolescents have co-opted inner-city black street-style as the authentic way to be. To act black, as the kids define it, is to be strong, confrontational, a little scary."
(Oh, there's more than that, too in "Selling Sex and Corruption to Your Kids").
¶ 1/15/2004 10:15:00 AM
