{"id":5551,"date":"2010-02-27T02:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T02:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2016-06-18T03:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T03:41:45","slug":"deterritorialised-blackness-remaking-coloured-identities-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5551","title":{"rendered":"Deterritorialised Blackness: (Re)making coloured identities in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za\/postamble\/vol2-1\/remake.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Deterritorialised Blackness: (Re)making coloured identities in South Africa<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za\/postamble\/\" target=\"_blank\">postamble<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za\/postamble\/vol2-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 2, Number 1<\/a><br \/>\n2006<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/academics\/history_and_anthropology\/yarwood.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Janette Yarwood<\/a><\/strong>, Doctoral Candidate<br \/>\nDepartment of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>City University of New York<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhen I was a kid in the early eighties, this music [hip-hop] was the first I\u2019d heard that I could relate to. You know, \u2018Fuck da Police\u2019, and all that shit, that\u2019s what I was feeling.\u201d<br \/>\nShamel X interview<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBlack is not a question of pigmentation. The Black I\u2019m talking about is a historical category, a political category, a cultural category\u2026\u00a0 Black was created as a political category in a certain historical moment.\u201d2<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the summer of 2003 I took my first pre-dissertation trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a> to develop my dissertation topic on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coloured\" target=\"_blank\">coloured<\/a> identities in post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_South_Africa_in_the_apartheid_era\" target=\"_blank\">apartheid<\/a> South Africa. Although it is no secret that hip-hop as both a musical genre and a defined lifestyle has gained recognition and popularity around the globe, I was not quite prepared for what I experienced in South Africa. I encountered cars blasting Jay-Z, Sean Paul and P. Diddy among others; people wearing Sean John, Avirex or United States sports team jerseys; and cell phones ringing to the tunes of the latest 50 Cent or R. Kelly songs. I found that as a black person of Caribbean and American descent, I felt a common blackness with the coloured people I interacted with not because of a common African heritage but mainly because of black popular culture and hip-hop culture specifically. This led me to ask: What does it mean to be black in today\u2019s world? Is there a transnational or globalised notion of blackness?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"file:\/\/\/home\/steven\/Downloads\/4264_oezg_2006_04_s155-172_yarwood%20(1).pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deterritorialised Blackness: (Re)making coloured identities in South Africa postamble Volume 2, Number 1 2006 Janette Yarwood, Doctoral Candidate Department of Anthropology City University of New York \u201cWhen I was a kid in the early eighties, this music [hip-hop] was the first I\u2019d heard that I could relate to. You know, \u2018Fuck da Police\u2019, and all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,24,8,394,520],"tags":[2324,1392,24185],"class_list":["post-5551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","tag-janette-yarwood","tag-music","tag-postamble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47746,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions\/47746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}