{"product_id":"rhizome-of-blackness","title":"Rhizome of Blackness","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Rhizome of Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical ethnographic documentation of the process of how continental African youth are becoming Black in North America. They enter a «social imaginary» where they find themselves already falling under the umbrella of Blackness. For young Africans, Hip-Hop culture, language, and identity emerge as significant sites of identification; desire; and cultural, linguistic, and identity investment. No longer is «plain Canadian English» a site of investment, but instead, Black English as a second language (BESL) and «Hip-Hop all da way baby!» (as one student put it). The result of this dialectic space between language learning and identity investment is a complex, multilayered, and «rhizomatic third space,» where Canada meets and rubs shoulders with Africa in downtown Toronto, Vancouver, or Montreal in such a way that it produces its own «ticklish subject» and pedagogy of imaginary and integrative anti-racism.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54224225141080,"sku":"9781433126031","price":118.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781433126031.jpg?v=1777087867","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rhizome-of-blackness","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}