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Germany speaking? Rap and Kanak Attak: Dominant Discourses on Language

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Author

Editor

  • Dirk Hoerder
  • Yvonne Hébert
  • Irina Schmitt

Summary, in English

Young people with migration background in Germany are often seen as having or producing problems. In this chapter, I discuss aspects of the German dominant discourse which still constructs this society as culturally and linguistically homogenous. I confront this perspective with language-based expressions by Germans with migration experience in e.g. Rap texts or political manifestos. While it is necessary to avoid simplified idealizations, I suggest that it would be beneficial for all members of German society not to position young people with migration background as deficient.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

215-236

Publication/Series

Negotiating Transcultural Lives: Belongings and Social Capital among Youth in Transnational Perspective

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

V&R unipress

Topic

  • Gender Studies

Keywords

  • Rap
  • Germany
  • language
  • youth
  • migration

Status

Published

Project

  • “Transfer of Cultural Praxes and Norms: Allochthonous and Autochthonous Youths between Parents, School, and Peer Group”

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3899711790