CFP: [Cultural-Historical] Habitus of the âHood
updated:
Monday, June 2, 2008 - 10:08pm
Chris Richardson
The ’hood has come to embody both the utopian and dystopian aspects of
low-income urban areas. It represents a collective sense of community as
well as a marginalized and often criminalized space/place. The popularity
of the term “’hood†(slang for neighbourhood) is generally associated with
the emergence of hip-hop culture. Today, however, the term encompasses much
more than the young, predominantly black subculture from which it originated.