Subculture and Ethnicity and Hybridity Flashcards
What is the general view on ethnicity and hybridity in subcultures?
Spectacular subcultures were studied and looked at in terms of their response to the presence of black people and their subculture in the U.K.
HEBDIGE ‘RASTAFARIANS’
Had strong religious beliefs and was a form of resistance to white culture and racism with roots to slavery and thus offered positive identities to the Jamaican/Caribbean culture.
JOHAN ‘BRASIANS’
British-Asians adopted a ‘hyper-ethnic-style’ by exaggerating forms of their parent culture to provide ‘empowerment through difference’.
Issues of religion, marriage, and diet lead to selective cultural preference between cultures.
Resistance or Hybridity?
MERCER ‘DREADLOCK HAIRSTYLES’
The styling of hair within the black culture is symbolic to its resistance to white culture and emphasizing identification with black identity.
Ethnocentric sociologists
HEBDIGE ‘BLACK STYLES OF DRESS’
There’s a clear relationship between black styles of dress, music and dance and urban subcultures.
Hybrid subcultures
NAYAK ‘WHITE WANNABES’
Young white working-class males who adopted black culture styles, fashion, slang, and music tastes. They wore lots of ‘bling’ and listened to hip-hop and gangster rap music.
Referred to as ‘wiggers’ or ‘wangstas’
Hybrid subcultures
VALE AND JUNO ‘MODERN PRIMITIVES’
Body modification for modern primitives is a reaction to the powerlessness created by living in a past-changing world through which some sense of power and control can be regained.
Hybrid subcultures
HUTNYK ‘CULTURAL EXCHANGE AND CULTURAL APPROPRIATION’
Cultural exchange suggests a two-way equal process which isnt the case.
Cultural appropriation shows power differences at work means Western subcultures strip symbols and meaning and use them in a superficial way.
Hybrid subcultures
CASHMORE ‘GANGSTER RAP’
Gangster rap was seen as the ultimate hybrid music where many styles are included and there’s no obvious point of origin.
