Rodriquez, Jason.(2006). “Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip- Hop.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35, no. 6 (2006): 645–68. By using ethnographic methods and interviews, Roriquez investigates how Caucasian youths culturally appropriate the hip-hop culture by maintaining the color-blind ideology in this article. Rodriquez (2007) maintains that “colour-blindness” is such a powerful ideological framework that in regards to hip-hop, it provides Caucasian participants with the “discursive resource to plausibly replace the message of black emancipation with one of universal emancipation ”. Rodriquez illustrates how by removing “racially coded meanings embedded in the music and replacing them with colour-blind
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Bennett illustrates how youth from Frankfurt am Main, Germany [Turks] appropriate and adapt hip-hop culture to use as an expression through his comparative analysis. In Frankfurt, hip-hop is seen to provide an eminent platform for statements concerning issues of citizenship and racism. Bennet’s fieldwork in Frankfurt included working with the Frankfutr Rockmobil, (their primary objective to focus on integrating youth of different ethnic minority groups ) that enabled hip hop to become a localized form of cultural expression. Bennett's research also finds that two recurring themes in German rap songs are expressions of the fear and anger instilled by racism and the insecurity experienced by ethnic youth in the community. He also studies the youth sociology and through his field work offers an insight on how the music affects their society, “Only later did the Frankfurt rap groups begin to realize that , as with African- Americans , theirs [cultural affinity] was a distinctive form of ‘lived’ ethnicity, which demanded its own localized and particularize mode of expression (Gilroy, …show more content…
By doing this, the racialized youth aren't appropriating the hip hop culture; instead they are showing appreciation by transforming it into something meaningful. This is a result of their own denial of integration in the German society. By making Hip -hop an interpretation of emotion ,I would say that the youth go through the process of internalization, objectification and externalization in which they internalize the institutionalized racism, and in turn create their own version of hip-hop. So in this sense, I believe that they appreciate hip hop culture as opposed to appropriating
Bennett illustrates how youth from Frankfurt am Main, Germany [Turks] appropriate and adapt hip-hop culture to use as an expression through his comparative analysis. In Frankfurt, hip-hop is seen to provide an eminent platform for statements concerning issues of citizenship and racism. Bennet’s fieldwork in Frankfurt included working with the Frankfutr Rockmobil, (their primary objective to focus on integrating youth of different ethnic minority groups ) that enabled hip hop to become a localized form of cultural expression. Bennett's research also finds that two recurring themes in German rap songs are expressions of the fear and anger instilled by racism and the insecurity experienced by ethnic youth in the community. He also studies the youth sociology and through his field work offers an insight on how the music affects their society, “Only later did the Frankfurt rap groups begin to realize that , as with African- Americans , theirs [cultural affinity] was a distinctive form of ‘lived’ ethnicity, which demanded its own localized and particularize mode of expression (Gilroy, …show more content…
By doing this, the racialized youth aren't appropriating the hip hop culture; instead they are showing appreciation by transforming it into something meaningful. This is a result of their own denial of integration in the German society. By making Hip -hop an interpretation of emotion ,I would say that the youth go through the process of internalization, objectification and externalization in which they internalize the institutionalized racism, and in turn create their own version of hip-hop. So in this sense, I believe that they appreciate hip hop culture as opposed to appropriating