 | Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-colonialism Subjects: Arts; Area Studies; Humanities; American Studies; Latin American & Hispanic Studies; Cultural Studies; Media & Film Studies; Music; History; Popular Music; Cultural Theory; Heritage; Popular Culture; Race & Ethnicity; Popular Music; Latin American History; Toward a Chican@ Hip Hop Anti-Colonialism makes visible the anti-colonial, alterNative politics in hip hop texts created by Chican@s and Xican@s (indigenous-identified people of Mexican descent in the United States). McFarland builds on indigenous knowledge, anarchism, and transnational feminism to identify the emancipating power of Chican@ and Xican@ hip hop, including how women and non-gender conforming (two-spirit) MCs open up inclusive alterNative spaces that challenge colonialism and capitalism. Pancho McFarland is Professor of Sociology at Chicago State University. He is the author of The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje and Chicano Rap: Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio . |
