This new Black youth culture raises some critical questions: how has Black America changed, what new circumstances and conditions have affected its evolution, and finally, what is the legacy of that culture at the dawn of the millennium? If Pac and B.I.G. are to be martyrs for the hip-hop generation, let them be martyrs in beginning an intergenerational movement to answer these questions and resolve those problems that threaten to undermine the very fabric and future of Black America. - Bakari Kitwana, 2002
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Tehama Lopez is a doctoral student in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago. She is originally from Los Angeles County, and received her bachelor's degree at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation looks at how framing racial inequality in terms of racial privilege affects white racial attitudes on an array of public policies and other social justice issues.
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