"""This Indian dance is so cool"": Identifying and analyzing racialized discourses in music videos"

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2016

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Akhtar, Minahil

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This research paper identifies and analyzes discursive productions and promotions of Others in and through twenty-first century music videos. Discourses of white and non-white subjectivities are examined. In-depth synthesizes of the data and discussions reveal that discourses surrounding white subjects laud this positioning whereas discourses related to non-white subjects are degrading. This paper unveils and critiques the existential dependence of dominant regimes on subjugated storylines.

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SOWK 6100, Award Nominated Practice-based Research Paper, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, School of Social Work, York University, Year 2014

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Indian dance, racialized discourses, music videos, white and non-white subjectivities, social work practice

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