A New Way of Being Italian Through the Lens of Hip Hop
Sat, 19 Aug
|conferenza online
Cultural practices like Hip Hop music offer alternative forms of belonging and identification that allow Afroitalian youth to articulate complex transcultural identities spanning beyond the dichotomy Italian / immigrant.
Time & Location
19 Aug 2023, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
conferenza online
About the event
L'evento sarà online qui:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84102140645
Dr Margherita Angelucci
Dr Margherita Angelucci holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Monash University. Her doctoral thesis examined the cultural articulations of youth of African descent in contemporary Italy, focusing in particular on Afroitalian Hip Hop music. Margherita is currently a Research Fellow at the Monash Intercultural Lab and Action Lab researching on intercultural communication and digital engagement of multicultural communities.Speaker bio
A New Way of Being Italian Through the Lens of Hip Hop.Talk title
Despite Italy’s rich history of cultural diversity, dominant social and political discourses continue to perpetuate the country’s self-perception as a culturally, racially, and religiously homogenous nation. In this context, Italian youth of migrant background are caught in an in-between position where they are not immigrants (being born and/or raised in Italy), but they are nonetheless excluded from complete belonging. This is particularly apparent in the case of…