Yellow B-Boys, Black Culture, and Hip-Hop in Japan: Toward a Transnational Cultural Politics of Race

Condry, Ian

doi:10.1215/10679847-2007-008

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“…Hip hop is a global tool that is transcendent of any one particular cultural group or identity (Condry, ) yet simultaneously flexible enough to be adapted to youth in situ and reinterpreted for the local context in which it is used—thereby deeming it a “glocal” phenomenon (Gadet, ; Motley & Henderson, ). As such, participants can engage in local hip hop culture while feeling broadly connected to a global culture.…”

Section: Hip Hop As “Glocal” and Asianmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Global Cypher: The Role of Hip Hop in Cultural Identity Construction and Navigation for Southeast Asian American Youth

Nguyen

Ferguson

2019

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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Southeast Asian American (SEAA) adolescents and emerging adults navigate a multicultural, global world by utilizing cultural variability to play up and play down three cultural identities: their Asian/Asian American heritage culture, the White dominant culture in which they live, and a hip hop cultural identity. The latter is a unique cultural identity rooted in the global phenomenon of hip hop that includes dance, art, and music as well as resistance to the dominant, mainstream culture. Hip hop is a meaningful cultural identity for SEAA youth because it is a cultural identity transcendent of race/ethnicity, a means toward relational and identity harmony, a form of resistance, and because it facilitates belongingness to a local and a global community.

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Section: Hip Hop As “Glocal” and Asianmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Global Cypher: The Role of Hip Hop in Cultural Identity Construction and Navigation for Southeast Asian American Youth

Nguyen

Ferguson

2019

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…Such contrasting attitudes can be seen in other analyses that discuss Japanese engagements with blackness (Condry 2007;Cornyetz 1994;Kelsky 1996;Sterling 2010). This body of work, however, has focused predominantly on the Afro-Western and there remains a lacuna of scholarship explicitly examining Japan's engagement with African blackness.…”

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confidence: 71%

Confronting diversity: Africans challenging Japanese societal convictions

Capobianco

2015

Contemporary Japan

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This paper examines how sub-Saharan Africans in Japan challenge three Japanese societal convictions: the myth of Japanese homogeneity, ideas concerning contemporary blackness, and inclusivity into Japanese self-identity. The analysis is based on participant-observation fieldwork and in-depth interviews with members of Japan's African communities. As will be shown below, the particular conditions surrounding African migration are notably different from those of other minority groups in Japan. The African population embodies a phenotypically disparate population that has settled in Japan and engages in work within the core of mainstream society. Additionally, in contrast to other minority groups, African-Japanese children lack a strong ethnic consciousness. As a result it is increasingly likely they will demand greater acceptance into mainstream Japanese identity, thereby questioning some of the essential criteria of what it means to be Japanese.

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“…Elsewhere, I have explored the difference between Afro‐Western and African blackness in the Japanese context (Capobianco , 198). To understand the conditions facing Africans in Japan, one must therefore understand how Japanese society engages the circulation of Afro‐Western blackness in racialized ways that serve specific purposes and contextualize how these engagements build on and appropriate Western racialized ideas in localized ways (see Condry ; Cornyetz ; Kelsky ).…”

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Making African Places in Japanese Space

Capobianco

2018

Transforming Anthropology

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This article examines the process of “place‐making” among Africans in Japan. Ethnographically, this paper explores how these places operate for the Africans who frequent them, underscoring how these particular sites function as “points of sociality.” Through an ethnography of a Tokyo neighborhood and an African establishment, I show how places are made African through a unique set of conditions. This essay demonstrates how, in some instances, African place‐making offers sites from which various forms of African nationalisms come together through continent‐based community formations in Japan. By drawing upon scholarship on space, place, identity, race, and public communality, it explores the multifaceted ways these “made places” assist Africans as they navigate the difficulties of life in Japan. I argue that “place‐making” can be operationalized within the broader context of a changing Japanese society in order to understand the emergence of African places within Japanese space.

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Yellow B-Boys, Black Culture, and Hip-Hop in Japan: Toward a Transnational Cultural Politics of Race

Cited by 38 publications

References 28 publications

A Global Cypher: The Role of Hip Hop in Cultural Identity Construction and Navigation for Southeast Asian American Youth

A Global Cypher: The Role of Hip Hop in Cultural Identity Construction and Navigation for Southeast Asian American Youth

Confronting diversity: Africans challenging Japanese societal convictions

Making African Places in Japanese Space

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