Analysis reveals class, gender, and racial dynamics in hip-hop videos by Chinese immigrants, indicating challenges in socio-economic justice.
What is the significance of Chinese immigrants making hiphop YouTube videos to tell stories of their working lives in the US? This article examines three non-commercialized hip-hop videos made by Chinese immigrants to elucidate class, gender, and racial dynamics within the Chinese restaurant industry that are largely invisible to the public. These dynamics reveal many contradictions and ambiguities that do not fit neatly in normative American politics, thus culminating into a condition of impossibility . This condition makes it difficult, if not impossible, to conceive how Chinese immigrants can move forward in broader struggles for socio-economic justice.
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