"Are you an African?" The politics of self-construction in status-based social movements

Social Problems

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 357-384

  McCorkel, Jill ^a   Rodriquez, Jason ^b  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hip hop; Identity politics; Race; Self; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449143925     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2009.56.2.357     Document Type: Article

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