Global Black Self-Fashionings: Hip Hop as Diasporic Space

Diaspora as aesthetic formation: community sports events and the making of a Somali diaspora

“…First, they highlight the sense of security and emotional attachment that immigrants can derive from having their own place, which gives them the space to define and enact their own narratives of identity and diaspora beyond or alongside narrow prescriptions of national identity (Valentine, Sporton, and Nielsen 2009). Diasporic Somalis use the performative space of the futsal tournament as a vital site for self-expression, intersubjectivity and community formation, akin to the use of performative arts such as hip hop music in other diasporic contexts (Perry 2008;Betz 2014). In accordance with Valentine, Sporton, and Nielsen (2009), the aesthetic formations created in this space span local and transnational scales, yet also foster their sense of integration and belonging in the Netherlands and in Europe.…”

Fighting Food Poverty through Film: Or Why Global Challenge Research Needs the Arts and Humanities

“…This is the 'Other within'-a 22 Horne (2019) provides a multifaceted analysis of the roots of jazz in race-related oppression, which also makes a compelling case for the persistence of racism and oppression in the commercialization of the form. Marc D. Perry also offers a multiperspectival view on the roots and reception of rap music (Perry 2008). I have discussed elsewhere the ideological significance of relying on vision as the primary means of encountering the world in travel narratives, and how the displacement of ocularcentrism can be interpreted as a means of closing the gap between self and other, of relinquishing the safe position of spectator in favour of the fully imbricated-and more vulnerable-, multisensory experience of difference (Topping 2019a, pp.…”

“…Horne (2019) provides a multifaceted analysis of the roots of jazz in race-related oppression, which also makes a compelling case for the persistence of racism and oppression in the commercialization of the form. Marc D. Perry also offers a multiperspectival view on the roots and reception of rap music(Perry 2008).…”

Relationship Building

“…In addition, the conflation of hip-hop culture as a space of marginalization too often elides the role of race, specifically blackness. Anthropologist Marc Perry (2008) intervenes into the erasure of race and the African Diaspora in the globalization of hip-hop culture. He argues, "hip hop can be seen globally as an increasingly important conduit for just those kinds of transnational black identifications and emergent subjectivities that have historically constituted the African diaspora as a lived social formation" (p. 639).…”