How Long to Read Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet

How Long Does it Take to Read Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet by D. Marvin Jones

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Is Gangsta Rap just black noise? Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America? This provocative set of essays tells us how Gangsta Rap is a creative "report" about an urban crisis, our new American dilemma, and why we need to listen. Increasingly, police, politicians, and late-night talk show hosts portray today's inner cities as violent, crime-ridden war zones. The same moral panic that once focused on blacks in general has now been refocused on urban spaces and the black men who live there, especially those wearing saggy pants and hoodies. The media always spotlights the crime and violence, but rarely gives airtime to the conditions that produced these problems. The dominant narrative holds that the cause of the violence is the pathology of ghetto culture. Hip-hop music is at the center of this conversation. When 16-year-old Chicago youth Derrion Albert was brutally killed by gang members, many blamed rap music. Thus hip-hop music has been demonized not merely as black noise but as a root cause of crime and violence. Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma explores—and demystifies—the politics in which the gulf between the inner city and suburbia have come to signify not only a socio-economic dividing line, but a new socio-cultural divide as well.

How long is Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet?

Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet by D. Marvin Jones is 329 pages long, and a total of 85,211 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 45 minutes to read Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet aloud.

What Reading Level is Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet?

Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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