Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance

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dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Quentin
dc.contributor.authorStroud, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned09/05/2017 14:49
dc.date.available09/05/2017 14:49
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn the last 19 years of post-apartheid South African democracy, race remains an enduring and familiar trope, a point of certainty amid the messy ambiguities of transformation. In the present article, we explore the malleable, permeable, and unstable racializations of contemporary South Arica, specifically the way in which coloured and white racializations are negotiated and interactionally accomplished in the context of Capetonian hip-hop. The analysis reveals the complex ways in which racialized bodies are figured semiotically through reference to historical time and contemporary (translocal) social space. But also the way iconic features of blackness are reindexicalized to stand for a transnational whiteness.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWilliams, Q. E. & Stroud, C. (2015). Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 24(3): 277-293en_US
dc.identifier.issn1055-1360,
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2825
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jola.12064
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherAmerican Antrhopological Associationen_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jola.12064
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPerformanceen_US
dc.subjectStylizationen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectWhitenessen_US
dc.subjectColourednessen_US
dc.subjectHip-hopen_US
dc.titleBattling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performanceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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