ABSTRACT
This chapter is about race-or better racialization-and how it is connected to identity and second language acquisition. It looks at a group of French-speaking immigrant and refugee continental African youth and their language-learning experience in North America. Their Blackness is central to this experience and hip-hop and rap are figured prominently. If you were a part of this group,
• would you consider yourself Black? • how would you define race in general and Blackness in particular in this context,
and how would Blackness relate to your language learning and identity formation? • that is, generally speaking, what is the link between race, language, and identity?
