Adam Mansbach’s Angry Black White Boy emphasizes the flaws of race and identity by describing Macon’s journey through college. Macon attempts to attack the hypocrisies of white people by robbing them and telling them to apologize to black people. “Day of Apology” encourages white people to go to New York’s inner-city neighborhoods and apologies for everything whites race has done to the black race. Leading up to confrontations between races leaving a harm NYC which makes Macon realize that he is the guiltiest white human. Showing how personalities are constructed depending on race and hip-hop. Mansbach’s use of hip-hop serves as a means to demonstrate how experiences influence identity’s evolution.
Kareem Muhammad’s article, Everyday People: …show more content…
According to Perozzo’s article, Identity can change with discrimination if one’s group is being treated unjustly member of the group can feel anger or negative emotions. Even though emotions appear not be important, emotions felt for one’s group have huge implications for social identity. On the other side, according to Muhammad’s article identity changes because of the different Hip-Hop scenarios. Public spaces have a very important role on how people cultivate its own identity. These identities are five and all of them depend on surrounding and personal interests. In comparison, both articles agree that some experiences can affect more than other to human identity, but overall experiences play a big role …show more content…
Mansbach says, “Hip-hop moves so fast that new jams are outdated by the time the last snare snaps, but Hip-hop recycles everything, so it all evens out” (105). Hip-Hop in comparison evolves the same way. It never starts from scratch because to create Hip-hop people use a small segment of beat from other songs, and after all those pieces together you get a Hip-hop song. Muhammad says, “The personal values that my participant indicated were most reaffirmed through hip-hop culture” (426). Hip-hop as anything else is considered an experience. Identity is a collection of experiences and pieces of life put together in your brain as a Hip-hop song has its little pieces or beats from other’s song. Human brain it also recycles everything we see, hear, or think, and it draws its conclusions based on experiences molding our
Kareem Muhammad’s article, Everyday People: …show more content…
According to Perozzo’s article, Identity can change with discrimination if one’s group is being treated unjustly member of the group can feel anger or negative emotions. Even though emotions appear not be important, emotions felt for one’s group have huge implications for social identity. On the other side, according to Muhammad’s article identity changes because of the different Hip-Hop scenarios. Public spaces have a very important role on how people cultivate its own identity. These identities are five and all of them depend on surrounding and personal interests. In comparison, both articles agree that some experiences can affect more than other to human identity, but overall experiences play a big role …show more content…
Mansbach says, “Hip-hop moves so fast that new jams are outdated by the time the last snare snaps, but Hip-hop recycles everything, so it all evens out” (105). Hip-Hop in comparison evolves the same way. It never starts from scratch because to create Hip-hop people use a small segment of beat from other songs, and after all those pieces together you get a Hip-hop song. Muhammad says, “The personal values that my participant indicated were most reaffirmed through hip-hop culture” (426). Hip-hop as anything else is considered an experience. Identity is a collection of experiences and pieces of life put together in your brain as a Hip-hop song has its little pieces or beats from other’s song. Human brain it also recycles everything we see, hear, or think, and it draws its conclusions based on experiences molding our