A Global Cypher: The Role of Hip Hop in Cultural Identity Construction and Navigation for Southeast Asian American Youth. Issue 164 (19th March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nguyen, Jacqueline; Ferguson, Gail M.
• Editors: McKenzie, Jessica
• Is Part Of: New directions for child and adolescent development. Issue 164(2019)
• Page Start: 99
• Page End: 115
• Publication Date: 2019-03-19
• Subjects: Child psychology -- Periodicals; Child development -- Periodicals; Youth -- Psychology -- Periodicals; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1002/cad.20279
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1520-3247

Abstract

Abstract: 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.