Necessarily black : Cape Verdean youth, hip-hop culture, and a critique of identity /

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Necessarily Black is an ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance, embo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Saucier, Paul Khalil, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2015.
East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2015]
Series:Black American and diasporic studies.
Subjects:
Cabo Verdean Americans > Race identity.
Hip-hop > Social aspects > United States.
Hip-hop > Influence.
Black people > Race identity > United States.
Ethnicity > United States.
Américains d'origine capverdienne > Identité ethnique.
Hip-hop > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Ethnicité > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Black people > Race identity.
Ethnicity.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Making sense of light-skin African blood : the grammar of Cape Verdean identity
  • 2. Body and being : notes on Cape Verdean blackness in ameRica
  • 3. Kriolu noize : bridges of black Cape Verdean sound
  • 4. Cape Verdean youth cool : tailoring identity
  • 5. The Cape Ve Rdean identity divide : a case of terminal blackness
  • Conclusion. Dark matters : a potential (ante)politics.

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