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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Buffam, H V. Bonar

Titel

Becoming part of inner city space: A critical ethnography of racialized youth

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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• This thesis traces the ambivalent ways that inner city youth experience colonial processes of subjectification that naturalize their subjection to criminalized, impoverished social spaces. I use my ethnographic fieldwork at a drop-in recreational centre in the inner city of Edmonton, Alberta to elucidate how youth negotiate stereotyped conceptions of race, space, and age. I highlight how middle-class conceptions of childhood animate efforts to create safe space for inner city youth such that they are rendered excludable from a space that should be fashioned to value their experiences. I then employ post-colonial theorizations of fixity to illustrate how indigenous youth experience their aboriginality as a quality that is naturally subject to (Canadian) Whiteness. I then draw on my participation in a hip-hop program at the centre to illustrate how indigenous youth subvert colonial racisms through their performance of a hybridized hip-hop that contests the relegation of aboriginality to anachronistic, criminalized spaces.