The Rhizome of Blackness : A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming
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by
Awad Ibrahim
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Black Studies and Critical Thinking
ISBN-10
1433126028
ISBN-13
9781433126024
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 28th, 2014
Print length
239 Pages
Weight
354 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.10 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Popular culturePopulation & demographyPhilosophy & theory of education
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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. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment.
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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