City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research Graduate Center 2001 Hip-Hop/Scotch: "Sounding Francophone" in French and United States Cultures Francesca Sautman CUNY Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Follow this and additional works at: http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, and the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons Recommended Citation Sautman, Francesca. "Hip-Hop/Scotch: "Sounding Francophone" in French and United States Cultures.” France/USA: The ulturC al Wars, ed. Ralph Sarkonak. Spec. issue of Yale French Studies, 100 (Fall 2001): 119-44. This Article is brought to you by CUNY Academic Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications and Research by an authorized administrator of CUNY Academic Works. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FRANCESCA CANADE SAUTMAN Hip-Hop/scotch: "Sounding Francophone" in French and United States Cultures So far from your family, on the foreign shore, Death swung its scythe over your brow, And I, in my bitter sorrow, I have come To ask of these crosses, these willows, these tombs: Where does my brother lie? -Armand Lanusse, "Un frere. Au tombeau de son fr&re," in Les Cenelles (1845). Look at the States where black people agonize. Calculated genocide that the state supervises. Bodies lying in a heap, a blank check for death. The forces of evil are afoot. 80% of youth growing up behind bars. In the ghetto, it's a free range ..