This guy at work who believes hip hop is dangerous and awful and the primary reason people (especially black ones) shoot each other and hit women lent me a copy of Losing My Cool by Thomas Chatterton Williams, to support his argument, I guess. The book's thesis is sort of that, except it's really just that (shocker) people perform socially to meet the expectations of their ethnic communities, and kids in high school want to do drugs, have sex, and be popular. This is one of the worst "academic" books I've ever read and I'm going to listen to a shit ton of Wacka Flocka to compensate.