Bomb the suburbs

"A mix of storytelling, journalism, and original research on a broad range of topics like suburban sprawl, hip-hop culture, wiggers, youth activism, graffiti, and Chicago, Bomb the Suburbs asks, "Should graffiti writers organize to tear up the cities, or should they really be bombing the suburbs?" But to think that this book deals only with graffiti and hip-hop is selling it short. From the role of white kids, to gangsta rap, to journalism, to breakdancing, freight-hopping, black intellectuals and graffiti, through a kaleidoscopic approach of stories, cartoons, interviews, disses, parodies, and research, Wimsatt challenges the suburban mindset wherever it is found, in suburbs and corporate headquarters, but also in cities, housing projects, even within hip-hop itself."--Jacket

"Graffiti, race, freight-hopping and the search for hip-hops's moral center"--Cover

Statement of responsibility from cover.

Introductions; Subway scholar; Our most abused phrases; Rap Music's Identity Crisis; Why do you want to bomb the suburbs?; They're saying tecs, we're saying technology: An interview with Reginald Jolley; Wiggers; "We use words like Mackadocious" and other progress from the front lines of the White Struggle; In defense of wiggers; Aren't you in the wrong neighborhood?; Hadn't I just been a special white boy?; Writers; A job opening in Cleveland [I'm not even going to talk about the train yards!]; Message to Mario: Wear your mask; Out over the stairwell

Dear Steven, Hip-hop is not a way of lifeThis is a warning!!; If graffiti was rap . . .; Dear Kozak: The rules of graffiti; Journalists; Confessions of a super-groupie: An interview with Lesley Thomas; Letters to Victor-Yo Editor-Dear Dry-Paper; Rappers; Faking the conversation; Chicago Syndrome; How not to be taken advantage of: An interview with Aaron Brown; Renegades of hip-hop-A music with little culture and no politics of its own; The coolest job in the world: An interview with Wendy Day; Chicago; The urban frontier [A guided tour through one of Chicago's best kept secrets]

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