The gospel of hip hop: a re-encounter with negritude

Abstract

The hip hop movement is one of the cultures most widely embraced by predominantly Black and peripheral communities, offering them an alternative possibility beyond subalternity, physical death, and existential erasure. Due to this emancipatory essence, as a cultural movement it constantly faces orchestrated attacks and systematic persecutions aimed at delegitimizing the transformative power it holds in the lives of peripheral youth. In dialogue with important authors such as Aimé Césaire, Clóvis Moura, and Aníbal Quijano, this work seeks to analyze hip hop as a historically diasporic cultural movement that affirms Black and peripheral existences through negritude as a core value.