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Reppin' and Rice: How AAPI Hip-Hop Fans Negotiate Their Racial Identities in the US Hip-Hop Community

Eason, Keri
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9963-4446
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1595847077716551

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2020, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Sociology.
Hip Hop is a global phenomenon. The boundaries of authenticity have shifted and continue to shift allowing more fans from different social backgrounds to join the U.S. multi-racial hip hop fan community. Asian American and Pacific Islander American communities are two of the groups who have become fans and have been conditionally accepted into the US hip hop community. They present an image that is in opposition to the stereotypes of what other hip hop fans learned and and believe about AAPI communities. AAPI fans' race and gender acted as barriers to being seen as authentic hip hop fans. This study explores they ways that AAPI negotiated their racial identities in a community that is historically, socially, and politically tied to Black and Puerto Rican communities in the South Bronx during the 1970s.
Earl Wright II, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Annulla Linders, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
49 p.
Sociology
AAPI; identity negotiation; AAPI identity; hip hop; Black culture; music

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  • Eason, K. (2020). Reppin' and Rice: How AAPI Hip-Hop Fans Negotiate Their Racial Identities in the US Hip-Hop Community [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1595847077716551

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Eason, Keri. Reppin' and Rice: How AAPI Hip-Hop Fans Negotiate Their Racial Identities in the US Hip-Hop Community. 2020. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1595847077716551.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Eason, Keri. "Reppin' and Rice: How AAPI Hip-Hop Fans Negotiate Their Racial Identities in the US Hip-Hop Community." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1595847077716551

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