Hip-Hop and poverty: between cultural resistance and economic creativity
In Quebec City, hip-hop culture allows to highlight actors coming from underprivileged backgrounds and from immigration. Based on rap songs and interviews with rappers, hip-hop entrepreneurs, and their relatives, I analyze how hip-hop and cultural entrepreneurship is used by the black youth community to resist to poverty and discriminations. Using an intersectional approach (Hall 1980, Crenshaw 1994, Chauvin and Jaunait 2015), this study particularly shows how, originally marginalizing properties (race, place of residence, and social status) can be converted into legitimate potentials.