{"product_id":"2940170809738","title":"Rap Dad: A Story of Family and the Subculture That Shaped a Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA timely reflection on identity in America, exploring the intersection of fatherhood, race, and hip-hop culture\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing news: he'd soon be a father. Throughout his life, neglectful men were the ruleamp;mdash;his own dad struggled with drug addiction and infidelityamp;mdash;a cycle that, inevitably, wrought Vidal with insecurity. At age twenty-six, with only a bare grip on life, what lessons could he possibly offer a kid? Determined to alter the course for his child, Vidal did what he'd always done when confronted with life's challenges. He turned to the counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The counterculture took the place of a father I could no longer touch. Since things like school and church couldn't get through to me, I was being trained up outside of organized institutions. What I gravitated to were these movements that not only felt redeeming, but also freeing. They were almost everything I needed.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRap Dad\u003c\/i\u003e, the musician-turned-journalist takes a thoughtful and inventive approach to exploring identity and examining how we view fatherhood in a modern context. To root out the source of his fears around parenting, Vidal revisits the flash points of his juvenescence, a feat that transports him, a first-generation American born to Colombian parents, back to the drug-fueled streets of 1980s-90s Miami. It's during those pivotal years that he's drawn to skateboarding, graffiti, and the music of rebellion: hip-hop. As he looks to the past for answers, he infuses his personal story with rap lyrics and interviews with some of pop culture's most compelling voicesamp;mdash;plenty of whom have proven to be some of society's best, albeit nontraditional, dads. Along the way, Vidal confronts the unfair stereotypes that taint urban men-especially Black and Latino men-in today's society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn illuminating journey of discovery, \u003ci\u003eRap Dad\u003c\/i\u003e is a striking portrait of modern fatherhood that is as much political as it is entertaining, personal as it is representative, and challenging as it is revealing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105185612016,"sku":"2940170809738","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170809738_p0.jpg?v=1763718108","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170809738","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}