"I see death around the corner": Nihilism in rap music
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Rap is one of the most salient music genres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries while gangsta rap, in particular, with its focus on urban street life has become a dominant means of expression within contemporary African American adolescent culture. It speaks directly to issues of identity, culture, violence, and nihilism, themes that permeate recent research on inner-city African American communities.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 2005
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"United" we stand: Responses to the September 11 attacks in black and white
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The framework of racial paradigms and racial tensions cannot be separated from the deeply rooted relations of the American Africans to race and power. The ways in which Americans and American Africans reacted to the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States threatening national security are described through various experiences.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 2004
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Disparities in free time inactivity in the United States: Trends and explanations
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The study of trends in socioeconomic disparities in physical activity during free time from national time-use studies between 1965 and 1999 shows that passive free-time activities have more disparities than that of the active period.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 2007
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