Racialisation in the Creative Industries and the Arab-Australian Multicultural Artist

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ID3628077
AuthorsSherene Idri (0000-0002-0842-5594, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), Sherene Idriss
Year2016
Volume37
Issue4
Pages406-420
Publication date2016-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07256868.2016.1190698
OpenAlexW2466646426
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited35

In Australia, artists of ethnic minority backgrounds are generally offered marginal spaces in which they can express themselves. They tend to be called upon by the state to act as cultural brokers or offer representations of their supposedly neatly bounded communities in the name of social inclusion [Werbner 1997. Introduction: the dialectics of cultural hybridity. In: P. Werbner and T. Modood, eds. Debating cultural hybridity: multi-cultural identities and the politics of anti-racism. London: Zed Books, 1–28]. The aim of this paper is to highlight how processes of racialisation and multiculturalist discourses produce specific vocational identities, namely that of the ethnic minority, community artist who uses their creative forms of expression to redress social inequalities. Drawing on the findings of an in-depth, qualitative study with young, male, Arab-Australian creative workers during 2011–2014, I suggest that this particular vocational trajectory is indicative of the classed, exclusionary and hierarchical nature of the creative industries. The paper pays close attention to the ways they use creativity strategically to deal with broader issues of race-relations and experiences of discrimination to suggest that these ethnic minority creative workers potentially become what Brubaker calls ‘ethnopolitical entrepreneurs’ [2002. Ethnicity without groups. European journal of sociology, 43 (2), 163–189, p. 166] who live off as well as for their cultural difference

Aesthetics · Creativity · Ethnic group · Hybridity · Intersectionality · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Redress · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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