Chicano Rap Roots: Black-Brown Cultural Exchange and the Making of a Genre

Additionally, for scholars, analysis of this "interracial" interaction found in much of youth culture provides opportunities to reassess and redefine such foundational concepts of Ethnic Studies as mestizaje and diaspora. In his article, "Diasporacentrism and Black Aural Texts," Robert Fox points out that etymologically "diaspora" suggests "a scattering which is also a sowing"; the dispersion of a people, their implantation in a new land, and the harvesting of a new culture (Fox 369).