Beschreibung:
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.
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: Homeless Urban Dreams 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.
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.