Hybridity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23634487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert J C Young (0000-0003-1754-2642, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 77-90 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/actrade/9780198856832.003.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W4238972527 |
| ISBN | 9780198856832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
‘Hybridity’ explains that cultural hybridity can be seen as an expansion of W. E. B. Du Bois’ concept of ‘double consciousness’: a painful incompatibility between how people see themselves and how society sees them only in terms of their race. Nevertheless, this has also formed the basis of the extraordinary cultural creativity of African-Americans. Drawing on cultural memory of their African roots, African-Americans have adapted and transformed aspects of European culture encountered in the US, particularly noticeable in the realm of African-American music. A comparable development of a hybridized culture is considered by tracing the emergence of raï music in 1970s Algeria, following the traumatic experiences of the Algerian War of Independence.
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Hybridity · Independence (probability theory) · Realm · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · North African History and Literature · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |