Black Youth Agency in Hip-Hop Culture
The Social Construction of Adolescence in Contemporaneity
ISBN: 978-1-80117-449-7, eISBN: 978-1-80117-448-0
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Abstract
This chapter discusses how young Black people produce social agency through the sphere of culture, based on hip-hop. Divided into two parts, it surveys theses and dissertations produced in Brazilian universities on the subject in the last ten years. In a second moment, it proposes a research methodology that takes young people as narrators of their social experiences, emphasizing how they think about the school space. The work is an exploratory study and seeks the interposition between formal schooling and the cultural practices of hip-hoppers. It intends to affirm hip-hop as a power, an affirmative form of an ethic of life, a way of life, and a way of escaping the established places for poor, Black young people from the suburbs. It is also intended to show how hip-hop, a marginal culture, has triggered a game of cultural positions within the school and displaced provisions of power.
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Citation
Jovino, I.d.S., Abramowicz, A. and Portela, B.F.F. (2023), "Black Youth Agency in Hip-Hop Culture", Isidório, M.S. and Bass, L.E. (Ed.) The Social Construction of Adolescence in Contemporaneity (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Vol. 31), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 7-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1537-466120230000031002
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2023 Ione da Silva Jovino, Anete Abramowicz and Beatriz Fernandes Ferreira Portela