Social media continues to consume our society, there's a caution about the appropriate consumption methods that should be approached, to informatively educate our youth. Often, these methods seemingly are being used within families to provide a framework of understanding around the governed intergenerational cultural differences.
In today’s world, a young black American male has a 1 in 4 chance of going to jail, whereas a 1 in 13 chance for white males to attend jail in their lifetimes (Thomas P. Bonczar 1997) These statistics are relevant as it doesn’t show the differences in opportunities, the difference in guided institutional aid, it attempts to just diminish the African American lifestyles. This post will evaluate the differences in intergenerational issues, regarding rap artists and the culture of African Americans.
When discussing Shall A. Mcaurther’s study on ‘Intergenerational Engagement with Hip Hop: Parents as Mediators of African American Adolescent Consumption of Popular Culture’, the article explores how black a parent-daughter relationship can function as a vehicle where girls tend to submit, and or resist the stereotypical images portrayed through the movement of hip-hop culture. Instead, exploring these relationship levels of dialogue between adolescent girls and the lyrics used by rappers, create a better light between intergenerational challenges of derogatory phrasing.
Research on parental importance in evaluating hip hop is forever evolving, maturing their children through the genre of music instead of negatively promoting their lyrics.
An insight offered by Brown (1993) discusses the importance of parental figures to discuss the bombardment of ‘negative messages about their worth, intelligence and beauty' (Brown 1993). Instead of focusing on the potential negative of the musicians, studies have shown the impact of parental involvement in socializing children (Elmore & Gaylord 2013).
Therefore, you need to ask yourself, what role do parents have in mediating the impact of the objectifying lyrics and imagery found throughout hip-hop's media? Bynoe (2004). The reasoning and messages behind rap music are explored through their visions and very own experiences in which they matured. A grasp of parents and youth workers in mediating the lyrics and internal messages of facilitating the understanding of consumption, and supporting the “construction of self-identity for African American adolescent females”