This is a contrastive study of discourses on social exclusion through the analysis of videoclips produced by female rappers in Brazil and in Spain, from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis and with a focus on the construction of identity. Analysis of the identification practices of the rappers suggests that alterity is expressed in distinct ways in their discourses: while in the Brazilian rapper's discourse, the "other" is articulated through lexicogrammatical strategies of indetermination ("people") or abstraction ("society"), in the Spanish rapper's the strategies are of functionalization ("politicians") and objectivization ("money"). In other words, there is more indetermination of the "other" in the case of the Brazilian rapper.
Gender; identity; social exclusion; music; videoclip