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"Crooked" Language: Moroccan Heritage Identity And Belonging On Youtube, Radia Lyna Lahlou
"Crooked" Language: Moroccan Heritage Identity And Belonging On Youtube, Radia Lyna Lahlou
Honors Papers
With the advent of user-generated social media, people are able to assert their ideas, opinions and positionality through online multi-way communication and participation. One such website is YouTube, a video platform where language production and identity negotiation are common. This thesis looks at a series of videos published on YouTube, entitled the "Moroccan Tag" to examine the ways five second-generation French-Moroccan YouTubers assert their national identities online. Using methods of guerrilla ethnography, I glean discourse from video content and comments to outline three key scaler processes through which identity performance manifests: through semiotic ideologies surrounding authenticity, language and imagined community. …
Amazight Identity In The Post Colonial Moroccan State: A Case Study In Ethnicity, Morag E. Boyd
Amazight Identity In The Post Colonial Moroccan State: A Case Study In Ethnicity, Morag E. Boyd
Honors Papers
This study will demonstrate that the Amazight are a distinct ethnic group in Morocco, despite the common interpretation in scholarly and everyday discourse that they are merely groups of people speaking one of the Amazight language and not representing a distinct cultural entity. The study will go on to examine the ramifications of this ethnic identity and the heritage of the historical and tribal roots of the Amazight in light of nationalism, state building, ethnicity, and cultural marginalization.