This course will explore the impact of Globalization on members of youth communities in the United States and around the world through the use of Hip Hop practices and methods of expression in response to specific economic and cultural forces brought about by global economic capitalism. Included are the roots of Hip Hop in the communities of color in New York in the 1970s, centered around the idea that Hip Hop is connected to traditional West African music making practices. We will explore the multi-cultural aspects of the Hip Hop music and culture, and frame the influence of Hip Hop as a resistance culture in locations around the world, examining sites of cultural expression, identity formation, and social movement activity in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia, and the United States. The role of Hip Hop in the process of youth of identity formation will be explored as it relates to youth in various regions, specifically, transnational and migratory youth communities. Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level seminars deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational and intersectional approaches for producing knowledge about resistance, power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’ studies, border studies, cultural studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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