Born in the Village, Roaming the World: Diasporic Essentialism in the work of Canadian Sikh Rapper Fateh Doe from panjabi songs Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 32 min 98 sec ✓ Published: 13-Nov-2020
Description: *This talk was given as part of the MULOSIGE (SOAS Univeristy of London) World Literature Series.*nnDespite the rhetoric of Canadian multiculturalism, Sikhs in Canada experience their subjectivity through the lens of exclusion and difference vis-à-vis mainstream Canadian society. Canadian Sikh hip hop artists “translate” the anti-majority racial politics expressed in Blackamerican hip hop into an appropriation of the genre that captures the unique context of the Canadian Sikh diaspora. Cana
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