{"id":327,"date":"2018-05-01T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=327"},"modified":"2018-05-01T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:39:49","slug":"appropriation-as-othering-and-unifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/05\/01\/appropriation-as-othering-and-unifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriation as Othering and Unifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think Sharma\u2019s last chapter in <em>Hip Hop Desis <\/em>was compelling in that she distinguishes between \u201cappropriation as othering\u201d and \u201cappropriation as identification.\u201d In reference to \u201cappropriation as othering,\u201d she talks about how \u201cthe popularity of hip hop and Black styles among other Desis is often decontextualized\u201d to the point where the meaning of hip hop is not understood. What then happens is the glorification of images that \u201cmarginalize what these people in these ghettos and housing projects are going through,\u201d which is othering these Black communities and their experiences. However, not in all instances does this prove to be case. For artist Chee, including derogatory terms in his music such as the N word and putting sand in front of it is strategic as it points to the \u201cdiscriminatory and exclusive practices of the United States, which Middle Eastern and South Asians like himself are victim to. \u00a0Here, he is identifying to a similar experience that other minority groups can relate to and not using the derogatory term to other, but unite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Sharma\u2019s last chapter in Hip Hop Desis was compelling in that she distinguishes between \u201cappropriation as othering\u201d and \u201cappropriation as identification.\u201d In reference to \u201cappropriation as othering,\u201d she talks about how \u201cthe popularity of hip hop and Black styles among other Desis is often decontextualized\u201d to the point where the meaning of hip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}