Moroccan-born adoptee raps on adoption [30] The rap artist known - TopicsExpress



          

Moroccan-born adoptee raps on adoption [30] The rap artist known as “YÀZ” employs the popular cultural form of rap music to describe “L’enfant adopté”, “the adopted child”. He defines his attempt at return along with the psychological toll his adoption has taken on him. The accompanying video is filmed among orphaned children in Morocco, which has opened up to foreign adoption, due to class identification with the “West”, and contrary to Islamic precepts [31]. The references to other works within the rap tradition which “kept him sane” while growing up connect him, via the medium, with Black cultural resistance in the United States. His expression also speaks of common cause with his compeers, the children of North African immigrants in France. - Daniel Drennan, aka, Daniel Ibyn Zayd, from the upcoming Gazillion Voices, Issue 14, which hits stands Monday, September 8th
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 12:46:54 +0000

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