Black cultural repertoires are jointly constituted by African heritage and diasporic conditions

Evidence

But I do believe that these repertoires of black popular culture—which, since we were excluded from the cultural mainstream, were often the only performative spaces we had left—were overdetermined from at least two directions: they were partly determined from their inheritances, but they were also critically determined by the diasporic conditions in which the connections were forged. Selective appropriation, incorporation, and rearticulation of European ideologies, cultures, and institutions, alongside an African heritage—this is Cornel West again—led to linguistic innovations in rhetorical stylization of the body, forms of occupying an alien social space, heightened expressions, hairstyles, ways of walking, standing, and talking, and a means of constituting and sustaining camaraderie and community. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 285

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘overdetermination from two directions’ concept — heritage plus diasporic conditions — as the mechanism for black popular culture’s formation.
• XREF: Central to the Foundations vocabulary: overdetermination here prefigures the double-consciousness/racially-constructed-selfhood themes the Islamophobia readings will draw on for how colonized/racialized subjects forge identity under constraint.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘selective appropriation and rearticulation’ of the dominant culture’s ideologies functions as a survival repertoire — parallels how minority religious communities strategically re-signify majority discourse.