Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Resistance in Dubai

This article uses an ethnographic methodology grounded in a transversal understanding of both black feminism and hip hop politics. Using ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews with eight black identified "third culture" women in Dubai, UAE, and featuring three of those interviews, I...

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Published in:Souls (Boulder, Colo.) Colo.), 2013-10, Vol.15 (4), p.316-337
Main Author: Isoke, Zenzele
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Arab women hip hop artists
Boundaries
Cultural Identity
cultural resistance
Dubai UAE
Ethnography
Females
Feminism
Fieldwork
global hip hop
Politics
Popular Culture
Resistance
transversal politics
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Summary:This article uses an ethnographic methodology grounded in a transversal understanding of both black feminism and hip hop politics. Using ethnographic fieldwork, including interviews with eight black identified "third culture" women in Dubai, UAE, and featuring three of those interviews, I argue that hip hop provides an important point of encounter to negotiate local to local connections in ways that undermine the national boundaries erected by states and reinforced through racializing practices that are often expressed through the cultural logics of capitalist heteropatriarchy. These reciprocal interviews offer insights into commonalities and differences among black women in very different parts of the world, whose identities are shaped, in part, by their involvement in hip hop culture.
ISSN:1099-9949
1548-3843
DOI:10.1080/10999949.2013.884449