Beschreibung
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.
Autorenportrait
Awad Ibrahim is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. He is a curriculum theorist with special interests in cultural studies; Hip-Hop; youth and Black popular culture; social foundations (i.e., philosophy, history and sociology of education); social justice and community service learning; diasporic and continental African identities; ethnography; and applied linguistics. He has researched and published widely in these areas. Among his books are
(2009; with Samy Alim and Alastair Pennycook);
(Peter Lang, 2014; with Shirley Steinberg);
(forthcoming; with Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Giuliano Reis); and
(forthcoming; with Ali Abdi).
Inhalt
Contents: We Got a Situation Herre. Race, Culture, Language, and Identity: Theorizing the Rhizomatic Third Space – «Wallahi, ils sont tous des racistes!».
Striated Racialization and the Rhizomatic Process of Becoming Black – « Si tu allais faire un sondage, ça vient souvent de l’orientation ou des personnels ». Teachers, Curriculum, and Pedagogy – Interlude:
by Reenah L. Golden – «Oh, I Got It, It Gives Me Great Pleasure!». Hip-Hop Culture and Language, Post/Coloniality, and the Imaginary – «Peace and One Love!». A Rhizomatic Third Space: Race, Language, Culture, and the Politics of Identity.
