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THE RHIZOME OF BLACKNESS
A CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF HIP-HOP CULTURE, LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND THE POLITICS OF BECOMING |
| By: |
Awad Ibrahim, Awad Ibrahim |
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Hardback |
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£106.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1433126036 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781433126031 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC |
| Pub. date: |
14 June, 2014 |
| Series: |
Black Studies and Critical Thinking 68 |
| Pages: |
239 |
| Description: |
The Rhizome of Blackness is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment. |
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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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US |
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
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