The Rhizome of Blackness : A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming Hardback
by Awad Ibrahim, Awad Ibrahim
Part of the Black Studies and Critical Thinking series
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The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America.
They enter a «social imaginary» where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness.
For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment.
No longer is «plain Canadian English» a site of investment, but instead, Black English as a second language (BESL) and «Hip-Hop all da way baby!» (as one student put it).
The result of this dialectic space between language learning and identity investment is a complex, multilayered, and «rhizomatic third space,» where Canada meets and rubs shoulders with Africa in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal in such a way that it produces its own «ticklish subject» and pedagogy of imaginary and integrative anti-racism.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:239 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:14/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781433126031
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:239 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date:14/06/2014
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- ISBN:9781433126031
