I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair. In my experience, music shop shelves are buried under piles of "Hip-Hop- or "Rap- music that supposedly represents the black subculture. White music, even if it could be defined as that, is what has the minority floor space. Besides, who ever labeled music as black or white anyway? ...

• Word Count: 725
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. ... In music, televison, the work force and even in the home, you see changes, but they are few. ...

• Word Count: 618
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Similarly, if a white person plays basketball or listens to rap music, we might think of him or her as being too "black". ... Movies, music, and yes, even Looney Tunes , all put these ideas in our heads. ...

• Word Count: 599
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• Grade Level: High School

He uses lots of references to concrete, specific examples such as slaves making their master's waste into a tasty meal (368) or creating the roots of so much popular music today in the plantation fields (368) or even introducing " bass to 20th-century American culture" (369). ... It's a bit hard to imagine someone with a larger world-view to agree that cool is necessarily a slave song that is now the basis of a popular rap song. ...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate