The Rhizome of Blackness
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The Rhizome of Blackness

A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming

  1. 239 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Rhizome of Blackness

A Critical Ethnography of Hip-Hop Culture, Language, Identity, and the Politics of Becoming

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Black Don’t Crack Marking the Unmarked: A Critical Ethnography of Becoming
  5. Chapter One: We Got A Situation Herre Race, Culture, Language, and Identity: Theorizing the Rhizomatic Third Space
  6. Chapter Two: “Wallahi, ils sont tous des racistes!” Striated Racialization and the Rhizomatic Process of Becoming Black
  7. Chapter Three: “Si tu allais faire un sondage, ça vient souvent de l’orientation ou des personnels” Teachers, Curriculum, and Pedagogy
  8. Interlude: Homeless Urban Dreams
  9. Chapter Four: “Oh, I Got It, It Gives Me Great Pleasure!” Hip-Hop Culture and Language, Post/Coloniality, and the Imaginary
  10. Chapter Five: “Peace and One Love!” A Rhizomatic Third Space: Race, Language, Culture, and the Politics of Identity
  11. Conclusion: What’s the Dillio? Towards a New “Ticklish Subject”: Pedagogy of the Imaginary as Integrative Antiracism
  12. Appendix I: Notes on Transcription of Interviews
  13. Appendix II: Profiles of Students Interviewed for This Book
  14. References
  15. Index