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Episode 3: Exile, Refuge, & Displacement

The third episode in Chi DNA's micro-doc series explores the notions of exile, refuge, and displacement in Chicago and abroad. International refugee crises (Assad in Syria, Sierra Leone child soldiers, etc.), neighborhood gentrification, and intracommunal violence are all byproducts of similar manifestations of de jure segregation, disenfranchisement, and global/local hegemony. Cultural representations in books, movies, and music struggle to make sense of the larger geo-political forces that create such destabilization of regions and displacement of peoples. These cultural practices and products serve as bottom-up responses to the top-down processes of white supremacy and global capitalism. Enter drill rap: Just as global refugee crises in the Middle East often come out of vacuums of power left by decades of intentional destabilization over oil, power, and resources by the West, much of the intracommunal violence propagated in drill (and in many artists/activists’ lives) are the results of decades of colonization and over-militarization of their neighborhoods. Activists and organizers speak to the narrative myths that hinder cross-cultural and mass mobilization while reiterating the importance of dismantling problematic institutions, policies, and oppressive systems to achieve true liberation.

Corresponding Podcast Episode

Ep. 25 - *LIVE AT DEPAUL* Chi DNA: Exile, Refuge, & Displacement ft. Jessica Puri & Heavy Crownz

Corresponding Editorial Article

"Drill Rap as Activism and Resistance" by Deyana Atanasova

Corresponding Event

DePaul University Honors Speaker Series
Interviewees: Little G, Jen Dean, Ruby Pinto, Kofi Ademola, Robert Moses, Camille Williams, Charles Preston, JMac & AYOO & Shakey Kruger (FBE)
Written, Directed, Produced by Caullen Hudson
​Produced by David A. Moran
Cinematography by Dakota Sillyman
Editing by Austin C. Pruett
Drone Photography by Ben Jassin

“It's tough out here. So, that's what makes everybody wanna grind harder [because] everybody wanna get away from this shit, you feel me? Who don't wanna see paradise when you livin' in hell?”
- LITTLE G | Rapper

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