“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island
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“Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island

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Published 2013-02-11
Charity Marsh
University of Regina
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Marsh, C. (2013). “Don’t Call Me Eskimo”: Representation, Mythology and Hip Hop Culture on Baffin Island. MUSICultures, 36. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/20248
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Through a contextualization of the song, “Don’t Call Me Eskimo,” which was launched on the interactive website YouTube in 2007 and an analysis of three examples of hip hop culture drawn from her ethnographic fieldwork on Baffin Island in June/July 2008, the author makes the argument that hip hop culture in Nunavut enables a re-working of contemporary Inuit identity. As part of this re-working, Inuit youth mediate representations of themselves and their current lived experiences through mobile technologies and local networks, challenging common stereotypes and reified identities that continue to circulate in political, cultural, and national discourses.
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