Subtitling rap: Appropriating The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for Youthful Identity Formation in Kuwait

Gazette

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-72

  Havens, Timothy ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American studies; global media; new ethnicities; television studies; youth studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993660162     PISSN: 00165492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016549201063001005     Document Type: Article

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