«Mir sagt man, ich sei diskriminiert, nicht integriert; und dennoch spreche ich so, als hätte ich Germanistik studiert.» «Uslender Production » als Kulturerzeugnis von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund

Abstract

This article analyses the creative potential, humoristic performances and artistic positions of second-generation youth in Switzerland. Over the last couple of years an increasing number of young second-generation artists became famous online by putting their origins ironically into perspective. In doing so these artists are playing with stereotyped images of foreigners and migrants without clearly affirming their own position. The article argues that “Uslender Production’s” rap music represents a reflection on the “spectacle of the other” after Stuart Hall and can be understood as a staging of the second generation’s own condition.