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"Там, откуда я родом…": репрезентация гетто-идентичности в текстах афроамериканских хип-хоп-исполнителей
The article proposes to analyze the texts of African American music artists in the hip-hop genre using the original concept of ghetto identity. Ghetto identity is one of two elements of the dual territorial identity of African American ghetto residents. Segregated areas (ghettos) represent a form of racial discrimination and the allocation of Others, localized in the sociogeographic space. A strong regional identity common to all Americans is superimposed by a special ghetto identity filled with negative meanings. In hip-hop compositions, it is represented by the construction “where I'm from”. It serves as a tool for opposing the Author to the Other, which can be a listener or participant in an intra-text dialogue. Based on the analysis of 25 compositions in which the phrase “where I'm from” was used, 8 main narratives were identified, with the help of which the authors of the texts represent the ghetto identity. Among them: the uniqueness of experience and opposing oneself to the Other, sociogeographic determinism, danger, crime, negative role models, irrationality of behavior, war of all against all, atomization of society and dysfunction of institutions. Two compositions represent a comprehensive description of the constituents of a ghetto identity. At the same time, it was revealed that one of them is an escheat simulacrum of ghetto identity.