ABSTRACT

Like the DJ who mixes together snippets of songs, I use snippets of memories within this essay to create a layered account of my experience of being an insider/outsider within racialized academic spaces. Sharing these snippets lead me to a discussion about how the choices I deploy within my academic writing are an active attempt to make room and create a homeplace for myself within the ivory tower. Extending the hip-hop DJ metaphor, I discuss how DJs use turntables and records to sonically merge different worlds by bringing together disparate sounds, voices, and cultures. I argue that, like the DJ, my writing intentionally brings together two worlds/two cultures/two voices/two selves: my academic self and my hip-hop self. Through word choice (hip-hop vernacular), use of hip-hop aesthetics (hip-hop metaphors and examples), and who I cite (sampling), I remix canonical Eurocentric ways of producing knowledge, make room for my voice to be heard in racialized academic homeplaces, and (re)imagine my experiences within academia.

摘要

就像将歌曲片段混合在一起的DJ一样，我在本文中使用记忆片段来分层说明我在种族化学术空间中做为内部人/外部人的经历。分享这些片段使我开始讨论如何在学术著作中进行的选择如何积极地为自己在象牙塔中腾出空间并为自己创造一个家园。扩展嘻哈DJ的隐喻，我将讨论DJ如何使用转盘和唱片通过将完全不同的声音，声音和文化融合在一起来超声合并不同的世界。我认为，就像DJ一样，我的写作故意将两个世界/两种文化/两种声音/两种自我融合在一起：我的学术自我和我的嘻哈自我。通过选词（乡土街舞），使用街舞美学（街舞隐喻和例子）以及我引用的人（抽样），