In America middle and lower class white people make the trends, but if you look at some of the main parts that make up pop culture, it is cool to be black. ... Music is not the only area Hip Hop culture is present in pop culture. ... The couple follows a group of upper class white high school kids and their association with black culture. ... The scene takes place in class and the students are having a discussion about how black culture is looked upon as being cool. ... White and black cultures are becoming very mixed in our communities because of this. ...

• Word Count: 1433
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many European Americans listen to pop and rock music and mimic the personas of pop and rock legends by their hairstyles, piercing and apparel. ... Music in the African American culture has weighed heavily on the African traditions and Diaspora from Africa to America. ... Music is now used as an instrument of culture through its flamboyant colors, and design. Therefore, Portia Maultsby in Africanisms in African-American Music states that, the music tradition of an African consciousness in America manifests itself in the evolution of an African-American culture (156). ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Heavily drug and sex influenced rock, was hard and heavy to the culture. ... The Alternative Movement in the 90's, Blink-182 and Green Day, broke, giving a genre not as strong as grunge or rock, but not pop. ... And together this combination of anti war and pro-black made an entire peaceful movement and its relationship with the music of the time changed the music and the culture. ... The alternative movements claim to fame is creating music that, while its punk or rock, it has pop roots. ... In conclusion the music of the 60's and 90's changed their culture and now there is sti...

• Word Count: 1505
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Pop's, who is my grandfather, came from Jacksonville, Florida. Pop's would narrate many historical events that took place in Harlem, which brought us to the turning points of Harlem. ... Certainly Harlem was a culture center for Blacks, but it was also during this period in the 1920's that Harlem emerged as a slum. ...

• Word Count: 2437
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• Grade Level: High School

Moreover, MeLune insists that Powell only offers pathetic excuses for the inexcusable treatment of black women by the Hip-Hop culture. ... If the article itself doesn't persuade the reader of this then one can easily goggle Jennifer McLune, click images and a caramel skinned female with jet-black dreadlocks pops up. ... Powell's article is about hip hop and how big of an influence it has become in American culture. ...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

As a child Baraka deeply affected by his pop culture heroes he created his very own comic strips and science fiction tales. ... After the death of Malcolm X he argued in the "Legacy of Malcolm X, and the coming of the Black Nation," that black people are a race , a culture, a Nation.... He felt that the Black artist must express his American experience in forms that spring from his own unique culture and that his art must be evaluated by standards that grow out of his own culture. ...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

"Generally, he was a harmless, little screwball creation whose eyes popped, whose hair stood on end with the least excitement, and whose antics were pleasant and diverting.""... "Hollywood was still unable to discern or depict the full spectrum of Black American life and culture.""...

• Word Count: 1420
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School