Based on the article for this week, explain how do French immigrant youth use hip-hop to forge their identities in France. What are some of the challenges they face?

Answer the following questions in approximately 150 words per response:

1) Based on the article for this week, explain how do French immigrant youth use hip-hop to forge their identities in France. What are some of the challenges they face?

2) In what ways does the film, La Haine, illustrate some of the challenges faced by immigrant youth in Paris? Choose a scene or two that describe these challenges.

Lecture:

The second-largest hip-hop industry after the United States is in France, and it is built upon the African immigrant experience combined with great influences from Black consciousness movements in the US. This week we will analyze the multiple critiques of French society, so-called assimilationist policies, and current events in order to understand the important role that hip-hop played and continues to play in French society at large.

Film: La Haine (on Amazon)

Required Content:

Welcome to Week 6 of AFA4370
Helenon, Veronique. “Africa on their mind: rap, blackness, and citizenship in France.”
Giving Voice to France’s Poorest Youth, With Rhymes and Beats – The New York Times.pdf

https://online.fiu.edu/videos/?vpvid=d8dd7e0d-e750-44cf-b6e7-66e853ec5cea

Helenon and giving documents are with week 6^

Week 9:
1. The article for week 8 described hip hop as a weapon. This week’s reading makes several references to hip hop and spirituality? Can hip hop be described as a spiritual movement? Why or why not?

2. In the movie, “I Love Hip Hop in Morocco” on of the rappers repeatedly used the “N” word. Do you agree with his use of the “N” word for Moroccans? How did he justify its use?

Lecture:

Religion plays a big part in all nations and in North Africa in particular. This week we will analyze how hip-hop culture provides a platform for both the promotion of and the critique of religion in Morocco.

Film: I Heart Hip-Hop in Morocco

I Heart Hip Hop in Morocco Part 1
I Heart Hip Hop in Morocco Part 2
Articles:

“Swedenburg, Ted. “Islamic Hip-Hop vs. Islamophobia: Aki Nawaz, Natacha Alas, Akhenaton.”

https://online.fiu.edu/videos/?vpvid=5211b2e7-86cd-40db-830a-cff5a3fd1047

https://online.fiu.edu/videos/?vpvid=f8f37621-f45f-4313-8286-1cd7467e9486

Islamic hip hop document attached for week 9^

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