A Critical Response to Isoke's “Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Resistance in Dubai”

Abstract

While Zenzele Isoke's work raises thoughtful questions and presents an engaging direction for rethinking black identity formation as it is informed by place, gender and the translocal politics of hip-hop culture, the following essay seeks to challenge and engage the author's analysis of blackness as a singular identity and hip-hop within the unique context of Dubai.

Keywords:

• hip-hop
• translocal
• transversality
• Zenzele Isoke