A social identity framework of American hip-hop cultural performance |
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Authors: | Vonda Powell |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Communications , Simmons College , Boston , USA vonda.powell@simmons.edu |
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Abstract: | The sociocognitive processes of marginalized-group social identity negotiation within a wider hegemonic sociocultural context can appear counterintuitive. Employing social identity theory to extend our understanding of the tension between racial and economic group-based identities, the mutations of three notable hip-hop referents serve as case studies that illuminate a framework of the intra- and intergroup relations facilitated by hip-hop's cultural performance within a racialized society. |
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Keywords: | multiple social identities social stratification social mobility hip-hop African-American |
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