I do think there's something to analyze here. In the 80s and 90s ideas about the hood and ghettos became part of a cultural identity. An identity that had a lot of overlap with ethnic identities. With a cultural identity that centered around a dead end of economic mobility I think it sort of blended in with the ethnic identities; similar to how Haitians described the french peasants as 'white slaves.' The paradigm has shifted, but why and what caused it? Did the gentrification of the 2010's allow the already present white passing population in inner cities to move up socially while the black population stayed put?
My school was in the ‘ghettos’ with majority black and Hispanic residents, so a lot of non black students grew up saying the n word and adapted black culture. But there were times when we went on trips to other schools - most of which were extremely bougie. Like public schools that look like cathedrals with 5 different basketball courts type shit. But it was extremely jarring to see students - black and non black - who obviously never grew up in the same environment as us somehow sounding and acting like us lol.
I do think there's something to analyze here. In the 80s and 90s ideas about the hood and ghettos became part of a cultural identity. An identity that had a lot of overlap with ethnic identities. With a cultural identity that centered around a dead end of economic mobility I think it sort of blended in with the ethnic identities; similar to how Haitians described the french peasants as 'white slaves.' The paradigm has shifted, but why and what caused it? Did the gentrification of the 2010's allow the already present white passing population in inner cities to move up socially while the black population stayed put?
I remember a lot of asians at both of my highschool adopted "ghetto culture" more than the white kids.
My school was in the ‘ghettos’ with majority black and Hispanic residents, so a lot of non black students grew up saying the n word and adapted black culture. But there were times when we went on trips to other schools - most of which were extremely bougie. Like public schools that look like cathedrals with 5 different basketball courts type shit. But it was extremely jarring to see students - black and non black - who obviously never grew up in the same environment as us somehow sounding and acting like us lol.
Like this lol https://youtu.be/0MoQ61ap-CU