Can't hold us back! Hip-hop and the racial motility of aboriginal bodies in urban spaces.
Urban centers across Canada are partitioned by racial geographies that circumvent and circumscribe the movements of aboriginal bodies. This article examines how aboriginal youth experience and engage these racisms that organize Canadian social spaces. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken at...
| Publicado en: | Social Identities Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 337 - 351 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May2011
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