Author and editor Bakari Kitwana will deliver a lecture "Thuglife and the Hip Hop Generation: Representations of Black Masculinity in Popular Culture," on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 pm. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College. Kitwana's appearance is the next in the Kirkland Project "Masculinities" series. A reception and book signing will follow. Co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and the Black Student Union, this program is free and open to the public.
Bakari Kitwana is the author of The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the
Crisis in African American Culture (Basic Civitas, April 2002). He has been the
executive editor of The Source, the editorial director of Third World Press
and a music reviewer for NPR's "All Things Considered." Also the author of The
Rap on Gangsta Rap (1994), Kitwana holds masters degrees in both English and
teaching from the University of Rochester. His writings have appeared in the
Village Voice, The Source, The Progressive, and BET.com. He tours the country
lecturing on hip-hop, black youth culture and the emerging politics of young black America.
The Kirkland Project has chosen "masculinities" as its theme for the 2002-2003 academic year. Because there is no single masculinity, the series will emphasize the ways in which masculinities are shaped, performed, experienced and perceived through differences of race, class, sexual orientation and sex/gender. For more information about this lecture or other programs in the series, please contact the Kirkland Project at 315-859-4288.
