This archive of knowing is a decolonial space of understanding human motility/mobility, diasporic identities, and senses of belonging. M.anifest's "Motherland" is a migration of hip hop home, a movement back to pieces of the sonic traditions which birthed the form. His arguement, "reverse colonialism, now we invading ya," is a cheeky way to assert hip hop's rapid migration and (em)placement around the globe. The cultural producers included on this mix express their complex identities-in-politics as they relate to concepts of (dis)placement and secure borders, labor precarity, racialized hierarchies, and criminalization, tracks like Sueño Americano and North create musical narratives that paint audio pictures of how border imperialism is experienced on subjectivities. Later tracks like Behind my Painted Smile, Destiny and Alger Pleure are narratives about the complexity of existing within "Western" nation-states, but never being recognized as of a place, these are narratives of reclaiming and reframing identities which challenge the logic of domination and coloniality, and the coming to terms with self. The mix is interwoven with beautiful alternative creators, counter hegemonic cultural producers who indicate their commitment to decolonizing practices by their holding of space and entrenching in the margins.

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1. Global Flows 3-Sonic Archive as ways of knowledge

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