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Community Building: Asian American Studies through Hip Hop Studies & Aesthetics

Asian Americans have long participated in Hip Hop as a culture of resistance and creativity. While popular accounts have often dismissed this participation as culturally appropriative or inauthentic, Asian American youth have continued to adopt Hip Hop to express racialized identity, knowledge of self, community, and relational race politics. This roundtable analyzes how, as Asian American practitioners of Hip Hop culture, our pedagogies have led to a deeper understanding of our Asian American identities and how they are tied into the larger discourse of American culture. Critically mindful of how Hip Hop as a conflicted site of Asian-Black relations, we lead with an understanding that an analysis of Asian Americans in Hip Hop should necessarily be considered in the broader contexts of white supremacy, relative positions of privilege and penalty, people of color solidarity, and interracial conflict. Based on this premise, we leverage our experiences as educators and community organizers to develop teaching practices that center embodied and experiential learning, and encourage solidarity building.

Grace Shinhae Jun

UC San Diego/San Diego City College

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