Hip-hop's negative effect on racial stereotypes 28 Articles

by Morgan Johnson

It seems like the average Black person just can't win. For over a hundred years the common Black image was defined by the Minstrel show Coon. When movies came out, the buffoon in black face spread even further across Ameri...read more

by Beth Oliver

Hip-hop music can be used to portray artists, their communities and their music in a profound way. Unfortunately hip hop is now using their music to portray a negative and demeaning image on the black community and women. ...read more

by Dwayne Innis

The wonderful world of Hip Hop is a series of dichotomies. On the one hand there are very positive images that dot that particular cultural landscape. Some of these idea promote self-appreciation, knowing one's history,...read more

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by Marcus Brooks

Remember the days of De La Soul, Soul to Soul, Digitable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest and Arrested Development? Positive, hip-hop dominated the airwaves and television screens. Videos showed our African-American race in...read more

by Christopher Kendalls

There was a time in hip-hop when it was okay to be deep and have profound thoughts, or to express yourself artistically and be different from the crowd. There was no question that the money may have come from illegal acti...read more

by Jack Dugan

Although the Civil Rights movement helped to thoroughly cleanse racism from the political correctness spectrum, it is not realistic to suggest that such a deeply ingrained social pattern of oppression can be completely era...read more

by PC Marks

My observation shows an overlooking of the effect on hip hop culture. Walking through the mall you will see a young male with baggy jeans, timberland boots and a doorag on his head. Guess what? He's white. And nobody's ...read more

by Christian Fann

Hip-hop, in my view, does not effect racial stereotypes. What does, however is the small portion of the entire culture called "emceeing" or rap. Particularly, more of the "gangsta" image that we see in the back of Electron...read more

by Pia Romano

Hip-hop's effect on racial stereotypes is great, and not to be ignored. It is undeniable that a double standard exists, and it only adds to the communal frustrations of a country trying to eliminate racism from the social...read more

by Maria Rohm

Music is many things. It has rhythm, emotion, but it can also have the power to persuade the average person to think that some things that are said about the African American culture true. An issue that I have with...read more

by La'Shundra Lewis

Today's musical society is significantly different from the music of our past. We as black people have, for the good of it, created our own identity, our own way of life. However, Hip Hop as we know it, has brought about m...read more

by Bob Schmidt

Hip-hop's negative effect on radial stereotypes is most unfortunate, particularly when the potential exists to help with this situation. The gangsta image, and the abuse of women are the honey that draws the be...read more

by Ted Sherman

Of course, hip hop only serves to emphasize the very worst in racial images. Loud, discordant, barking sounds and beats. Gutter grammar. Unchecked cursing. Glorifying the "gangsta". Squawks to defy police and all other aut...read more

by N. A. Hernandez

Hip-hop has had some negative effects upon our youth in the last decade or two. It is glamorized to our youth that rapping about degrading women, using guns and drugs, and derogatory language can make you rich and famous. ...read more

by Larry Gray

For centuries there has remained a dark cloud looming over such an illustrious race of people as the African-American. We have strived in every conceiveable fashion merely to break the bonds that have held us in various c...read more

by Chris Sharp

Rap, Hip hop and R&B music is based around images of gangsters, drug-dealing criminals, guns, and a world where women are referred to as b*tch or wh*re. How can that not generate a negative image for young black people? ...read more

by Randa Morris

What's your impression of the typical African American citizen? Do you associate ghetto life, the "hood", hanging with the "homies" drugs, gang violence, and all of the other stereo-typical associations of African Ameri...read more

by Martin Matthews

I fail to see how Hip-Hop might provide a negative effect on racial stereotypes. P. Diddy, Master P., Jay-z, and even now, 50 Cent are all worth close to $500 million respectively. What's so negative about that? Hip-Hop i...read more

by Sarah Piper

It is a rather ironic thing, within hip-hop culture it is believed that they are helping to elevate the status of African-Americans, but this is not the case. Much of hip hop culture would in fact seem to tie into 19th ce...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

Hip-hop is today the typical black music born and produced by the the poorest social layers of black community and has known a really "explosive" success, being known and loved by the rest of the black communities in U.S. ...read more