Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians

Sarah J. Williams

doi:10.5771/9781666971910

Zusammenfassung

Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians: Born to Stand Out explores the building of political voice of young South Sudanese Australians to resist racialising discourses, particularly through hip hop. Presented as an ethnography, Sarah J. Williams draws on empirical evidence from a youth participatory action research project facilitated by a small nonprofit organisation: Footprints. Each chapter foregrounds counter-narratives young South Sudanese Australian hip-hop artists portray in response to over a decade of media and moral panics targeting their communities, limiting their sense of freedom and resulting in a rise in youth suicide. The core message throughout suggests participants reject any goal of or focus on ‘fitting in’. Instead, based on their conviction that they are ‘born to stand out’, these artivists carve out space in the face of racialising discourses perpetuated primarily by Australian Whiteness.

Through the lenses of new social movements and theories and perspectives informed by critical race theory and critical Hip Hop pedagogy, this book expands race and ethnicity as a central theme by exploring how the political voice of this group of young South Sudanese Australians manifests in important new ways that conventional theories of activism and resistance may not capture. Participants embark on consciousness-raising practices to reframe and assert their multiple identities whilst establishing themselves as social agents in the world.

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Copyrightjahr: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-7190-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-7191-0
Verlag: Lexington, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 326
Produkttyp: Monographie

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KapitelSeiten

1. Contents Kein Zugriff
2. List of Figures and Tables Kein Zugriff
3. Foreword Kein Zugriff
4. Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
5. Acronyms and Key Terms Kein Zugriff
1. South Sudanese Populations in Australia Kein Zugriff
2. South Sudanese Experiences in Australia Kein Zugriff
3. We Don’t Fit In – Previous Research Kein Zugriff
4. What Is It That Young South Sudanese Australians Are Resisting? Racial Profiling and Moral Panics Directed towards South Sudanese Australian Urban Youth Kein Zugriff
5. What Does It Mean to Challenge Representations? Kein Zugriff
6. Questions Explored throughout Monograph Kein Zugriff
7. Locale – Footprints Youth Participatory Action Research and Socio-political Context Kein Zugriff
8. Significance of Reclaiming Identities Kein Zugriff
9. Monograph Structure Kein Zugriff
10. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Sites for Social Change Kein Zugriff
2. Overview of the Grounded Project and Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy Kein Zugriff
3. Researcher Positionality and Critical-Transformative Paradigm Kein Zugriff
4. Towards Decolonising, Antiracist and Indigenous Research Kein Zugriff
5. Artist Representation Kein Zugriff
6. 1. Youth Participatory Action Research Kein Zugriff
  2. Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy Kein Zugriff
  3. The Grounded Project Kein Zugriff
7. Arts Artefacts Featured Kein Zugriff
8. Data Coding and Analysis Kein Zugriff
9. Achieving Freedoms and Aspirations Kein Zugriff
10. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. An Expression of Political Voice in the ‘Hood’ Kein Zugriff
2. ‘Race’ and ‘Racism’ Kein Zugriff
3. Critical Race Theory and the ‘R’ Word – Racism Kein Zugriff
4. CRT in Australia Kein Zugriff
5. Experiences of Everyday and Systemic Racism Kein Zugriff
6. Urban Youth Culture – Hip Hop Music as a Way to Engage and Inspire Kein Zugriff
7. Examples of Urban Youth Culture Music Engagement and Artist Tracks Kein Zugriff
8. ‘Visions from the Kitchen’ – Moments of Clarity for the Future Kein Zugriff
9. Public Pedagogy – Places, Spaces, ‘Little Publics’ – Youth-led Responses and Standing Out for the Right Reasons Kein Zugriff
10. Development of Political Voice Kein Zugriff
11. Do Young South Sudanese Australians Have a Political Voice? Kein Zugriff
12. Message to the South Sudanese Youth – ‘The System Ain’t Playing’ Kein Zugriff
13. Urban Portrayals of Young South Sudanese Australians in Radical Context Kein Zugriff
14. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Resistance – New Social Movements through Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy Kein Zugriff
2. Hip Hop as a New Social Movement – Sites for Social Change for Urban Youth Kein Zugriff
3. Hip Hop Culture and Political Voice Expression as a Form of Resistance Kein Zugriff
4. Consciousness-raising through Storytelling, Performance and Public Pedagogy Kein Zugriff
5. Identity Politics – Forms of BIPOC Resistance through Culture-Centred Approach Kein Zugriff
6. Identity Politics Playing Tricks Kein Zugriff
7. The Grounded Project Consciousness-raising Journey Kein Zugriff
8. Notions of ‘Blackness’ and Affirmation of Black Identities Kein Zugriff
9. Black Consciousness and Black Power Informing Young South Sudanese Australians’ Sense of Blackness Kein Zugriff
10. Empower Black Leadership through Showcasing Black Culture – Identity as Calling Kein Zugriff
11. Black Power – Asserting Identities within Blackness Through Black Excellence – Understanding That You Are ‘Born to Stand Out’ Kein Zugriff
12. Asserting Blackness as an Alternative Expression of Political Voice Kein Zugriff
13. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Racialising Discourses Pointed towards South Sudanese Australians Kein Zugriff
2. Racialising Discourses as a By-product of ‘Whiteness’ Kein Zugriff
3. Media and Political Moral Panics Perpetuating Racialising Discourses Kein Zugriff
4. Referring to Liep Gony’s Murder – 14 Years on and the ‘African Gangs’ Narrative – ‘My Skin Ain’t Apex’ Kein Zugriff
5. The Impact of Terms and Focus of Editorials in Mainstream Media Kein Zugriff
6. Truth Left in the Dark: Liep Gony’s Murder Kein Zugriff
7. Political Focus – Fearmongering Tactics amongst ‘the Suits’ Kein Zugriff
8. Institutional Focus – Further Evidence that the ‘System Ain’t Playing’ Kein Zugriff
9. Young South Sudanese Australians Responses to Racialising Discourses through Participating in an New Social Movement Kein Zugriff
10. The Grounded Project (Phase Two) – Hip Hop as an Arts-based Form of Resistance – Developing a Counter-Narrative Kein Zugriff
11. The Grounded Youth Stage – Arts-based Forms of Resistance Kein Zugriff
12. The Majority of Young South Sudanese Australians Are Not ‘Criminals’ and Are Flourishing Kein Zugriff
13. Artivism to Respond to Racist Narratives Kein Zugriff
14. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Being ‘Born to Stand Out’ Kein Zugriff
2. Born to Stand Out – Social Indicators Kein Zugriff
3. 1. Being Born to Stand Out in Public – Creating Sites for Dialogue Kein Zugriff
  2. Pop-up Performances and Schools Tour Kein Zugriff
  3. Dandenong High School Lunchtime Performance Kein Zugriff
  4. The Dandenong Market Pop-up Performance Kein Zugriff
  5. 1. The Grounded Youth Stage Continued – Arts-based Forms of Resistance Kein Zugriff
  6. Identity Politics on Display through Public Performance Kein Zugriff
  7. Afrocentricity and Afropolitanism – An Expression of Political Voice through Blackness Kein Zugriff
4. Critical Review of the Grounded Project – Culture as Resisting and Storytelling Kein Zugriff
5. Sites of Arts-based Resistance to Racialising Discourses Kein Zugriff
6. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Summary of Findings and Structure of this Chapter Kein Zugriff
2. Consciousness-raising and Resistance Kein Zugriff
3. 1. Challenging Traditional Paradigms, Texts, and Theories Used to Explain the Experiences of Young BIPOC Kein Zugriff
4. Young South Sudanese Australian Hip Hop Artists Political Voice Kein Zugriff
5. 1. The Centrality of Race and Racism and Their Intersectionality with Other Forms of Oppression Kein Zugriff
  2. Towards Freedoms and Aspirations for Young South Sudanese Australians Kein Zugriff
6. 1. The Centrality of Experiential Knowledge of Young BIPOC Kein Zugriff
7. Summary of Discussion Kein Zugriff
8. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. 1. The Impact of Racialising Discourses on Young South Sudanese Australians’ Experiences of Living in Australia Kein Zugriff
  2. Locating Youth Agency: Young South Sudanese Australians’ Alternative Forms of Artivism through the Born To Stand Out Motto and Participation in New Social Movements Kein Zugriff
2. 1. A Narrative Process Kein Zugriff
3. 1. Doing Things Differently Going Forward: Policy, Research and Practice Kein Zugriff
4. Concluding Statement Kein Zugriff
5. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Note Kein Zugriff
Glossary of Terms and Key Events Kein Zugriff Seiten 275 - 276
References Kein Zugriff Seiten 277 - 310
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 311 - 324
About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 325 - 326

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