SOC102H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gangsta Rap, Crack Cocaine, Black Nationalism
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Hip hop from caps to bling: strolling down the avenue, in hip-hop slang, caps are bullets and bling is ashy jewellery. Caps are the means, and bling is the goal: 1. 8 million black men are missing, popular subcultures are rooted in lives of african american who focus on violence and death, normal sex ration is 96 in white societies. However, among african americans, the sex ratio is less than 87: many missing black men died violently. The homicide rate is the number of murders per. 100,000 people in a population: homicide is not the only cause of black death, there are also car accidents, drug overdoses, aids, committed suicide. It is therefore to be expected that violence and death would form central themes in african american"s cultural expression: social origins of hip hop, the civil rights movement created new educational, housing, and job opportunities for.
