Hip Hop Desis
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Hip Hop Desis

South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness

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eBook - PDF

Hip Hop Desis

South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness

About this book

Hip Hop Desis explores the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Nitasha Tamar Sharma argues that through their lives and lyrics, young "hip hop desis" express a global race consciousness that reflects both their sense of connection with Blacks as racialized minorities in the United States and their diasporic sensibility as part of a global community of South Asians. She emphasizes the role of appropriation and sampling in the ways that hip hop desis craft their identities, create art, and pursue social activism. Some desi artists produce what she calls "ethnic hip hop," incorporating South Asian languages, instruments, and immigrant themes. Through ethnic hip hop, artists, including KB, Sammy, and Deejay Bella, express "alternative desiness," challenging assumptions about their identities as South Asians, children of immigrants, minorities, and Americans. Hip hop desis also contest and seek to bridge perceived divisions between Blacks and South Asian Americans. By taking up themes considered irrelevant to many Asian Americans, desi performers, such as D'Lo, Chee Malabar of Himalayan Project, and Rawj of Feenom Circle, create a multiracial form of Black popular culture to fight racism and enact social change.

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Yes, you can access Hip Hop Desis by Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, Ronald Radano,Josh Kun in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Music. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Claiming Space, Making Race
  5. 1. Alternative Ethnics: Rotten Coconuts and Ethnic Hip Hop
  6. 2. Making Race: Desi Racial Identities, South Asian and Black Relations, and Racialized Hip Hop
  7. 3. Flipping the Gender Script: Gender and Sexuality in South Asian and Hip Hop America
  8. 4. The Appeal of Hip Hop, Ownership, and the Politics of Location
  9. 5. Sampling South Asians: Dual Flows of Appropriation and the Possibilities of Authenticity
  10. Conclusion: Turning Thoughts into Action through the Politics of Identification
  11. Notes
  12. References
  13. Index