Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians

Sarah J. Williams

doi:10.5771/9781666971910

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-7190-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-7191-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 326
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. Foreword No access
4. Acknowledgements No access
5. Acronyms and Key Terms No access
1. South Sudanese Populations in Australia No access
2. South Sudanese Experiences in Australia No access
3. We Don’t Fit In – Previous Research No access
4. What Is It That Young South Sudanese Australians Are Resisting? Racial Profiling and Moral Panics Directed towards South Sudanese Australian Urban Youth No access
5. What Does It Mean to Challenge Representations? No access
6. Questions Explored throughout Monograph No access
7. Locale – Footprints Youth Participatory Action Research and Socio-political Context No access
8. Significance of Reclaiming Identities No access
9. Monograph Structure No access
10. Notes No access
1. Sites for Social Change No access
2. Overview of the Grounded Project and Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy No access
3. Researcher Positionality and Critical-Transformative Paradigm No access
4. Towards Decolonising, Antiracist and Indigenous Research No access
5. Artist Representation No access
6. 1. Youth Participatory Action Research No access
  2. Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy No access
  3. The Grounded Project No access
7. Arts Artefacts Featured No access
8. Data Coding and Analysis No access
9. Achieving Freedoms and Aspirations No access
10. Notes No access
1. An Expression of Political Voice in the ‘Hood’ No access
2. ‘Race’ and ‘Racism’ No access
3. Critical Race Theory and the ‘R’ Word – Racism No access
4. CRT in Australia No access
5. Experiences of Everyday and Systemic Racism No access
6. Urban Youth Culture – Hip Hop Music as a Way to Engage and Inspire No access
7. Examples of Urban Youth Culture Music Engagement and Artist Tracks No access
8. ‘Visions from the Kitchen’ – Moments of Clarity for the Future No access
9. Public Pedagogy – Places, Spaces, ‘Little Publics’ – Youth-led Responses and Standing Out for the Right Reasons No access
10. Development of Political Voice No access
11. Do Young South Sudanese Australians Have a Political Voice? No access
12. Message to the South Sudanese Youth – ‘The System Ain’t Playing’ No access
13. Urban Portrayals of Young South Sudanese Australians in Radical Context No access
14. Notes No access
1. Resistance – New Social Movements through Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy No access
2. Hip Hop as a New Social Movement – Sites for Social Change for Urban Youth No access
3. Hip Hop Culture and Political Voice Expression as a Form of Resistance No access
4. Consciousness-raising through Storytelling, Performance and Public Pedagogy No access
5. Identity Politics – Forms of BIPOC Resistance through Culture-Centred Approach No access
6. Identity Politics Playing Tricks No access
7. The Grounded Project Consciousness-raising Journey No access
8. Notions of ‘Blackness’ and Affirmation of Black Identities No access
9. Black Consciousness and Black Power Informing Young South Sudanese Australians’ Sense of Blackness No access
10. Empower Black Leadership through Showcasing Black Culture – Identity as Calling No access
11. Black Power – Asserting Identities within Blackness Through Black Excellence – Understanding That You Are ‘Born to Stand Out’ No access
12. Asserting Blackness as an Alternative Expression of Political Voice No access
13. Notes No access
1. Racialising Discourses Pointed towards South Sudanese Australians No access
2. Racialising Discourses as a By-product of ‘Whiteness’ No access
3. Media and Political Moral Panics Perpetuating Racialising Discourses No access
4. Referring to Liep Gony’s Murder – 14 Years on and the ‘African Gangs’ Narrative – ‘My Skin Ain’t Apex’ No access
5. The Impact of Terms and Focus of Editorials in Mainstream Media No access
6. Truth Left in the Dark: Liep Gony’s Murder No access
7. Political Focus – Fearmongering Tactics amongst ‘the Suits’ No access
8. Institutional Focus – Further Evidence that the ‘System Ain’t Playing’ No access
9. Young South Sudanese Australians Responses to Racialising Discourses through Participating in an New Social Movement No access
10. The Grounded Project (Phase Two) – Hip Hop as an Arts-based Form of Resistance – Developing a Counter-Narrative No access
11. The Grounded Youth Stage – Arts-based Forms of Resistance No access
12. The Majority of Young South Sudanese Australians Are Not ‘Criminals’ and Are Flourishing No access
13. Artivism to Respond to Racist Narratives No access
14. Notes No access
1. Being ‘Born to Stand Out’ No access
2. Born to Stand Out – Social Indicators No access
3. 1. Being Born to Stand Out in Public – Creating Sites for Dialogue No access
  2. Pop-up Performances and Schools Tour No access
  3. Dandenong High School Lunchtime Performance No access
  4. The Dandenong Market Pop-up Performance No access
  5. 1. The Grounded Youth Stage Continued – Arts-based Forms of Resistance No access
  6. Identity Politics on Display through Public Performance No access
  7. Afrocentricity and Afropolitanism – An Expression of Political Voice through Blackness No access
4. Critical Review of the Grounded Project – Culture as Resisting and Storytelling No access
5. Sites of Arts-based Resistance to Racialising Discourses No access
6. Notes No access
1. Summary of Findings and Structure of this Chapter No access
2. Consciousness-raising and Resistance No access
3. 1. Challenging Traditional Paradigms, Texts, and Theories Used to Explain the Experiences of Young BIPOC No access
4. Young South Sudanese Australian Hip Hop Artists Political Voice No access
5. 1. The Centrality of Race and Racism and Their Intersectionality with Other Forms of Oppression No access
  2. Towards Freedoms and Aspirations for Young South Sudanese Australians No access
6. 1. The Centrality of Experiential Knowledge of Young BIPOC No access
7. Summary of Discussion No access
8. Notes No access
1. 1. The Impact of Racialising Discourses on Young South Sudanese Australians’ Experiences of Living in Australia No access
  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 No access
2. 1. A Narrative Process No access
3. 1. Doing Things Differently Going Forward: Policy, Research and Practice No access
4. Concluding Statement No access
5. Notes No access
1. Note No access
Glossary of Terms and Key Events No access Pages 275 - 276
References No access Pages 277 - 310
Index No access Pages 311 - 324
About the Author No access Pages 325 - 326