Date of Award

1-1-2013

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Sociology

Content Description

1 online resource (viii, 339 pages)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Steven J Seidman

Committee Members

Angie Y Chung, Ronald Jacobs

Keywords

Hip-Hop, Racial Boundaries, Racial Identity, Whiteness, Youth, Whites, Youth, White, Hip-hop

Subject Categories

Sociology

Abstract

This dissertation examines the ways in which white hip-hop youth negotiate racial boundaries in their daily lives, and how this process of racial boundary negotiation in turn influences their construction of white racial identities. By focusing on white youth who mark their racial identity to varying degrees based on their level of involvement in hip-hop culture, and comparing and contrasting white hip-hop kids from a suburban area who live their lives in a homogenous, mostly white racial context to their counterparts from an urban area who live their lives in a heterogeneous, multiracial context, I have been able to parse out the ways that context matters in the possibility of movement across racial borders and the production and reproduction of racial identities.

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