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Source: Raw Story
One of the stars of the Hunger Games movie series called several pop stars on the carpet for appropriating black culture in a nearly 5-minute critique of the music and fashion industries, NBC News reported.
The line between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange is always going to be blurred, 16-year-old Amandla Stenberg says in the video. But heres the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.
The video, titled Dont Cash Crop My Corn Rows, began as a school project but got wider attention after being posted online. Stenberg shows clips of singers Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry engaging in the behavior in both their attire and, in Cyrus case, her emphasis on twerking while using black women as props.
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as black culture? Stenberg asks.
The line between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange is always going to be blurred, 16-year-old Amandla Stenberg says in the video. But heres the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.
The video, titled Dont Cash Crop My Corn Rows, began as a school project but got wider attention after being posted online. Stenberg shows clips of singers Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry engaging in the behavior in both their attire and, in Cyrus case, her emphasis on twerking while using black women as props.
What would America be like if we loved black people as much as black culture? Stenberg asks.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/hunger-games-stars-stunning-critique-what-if-america-loved-black-people-as-much-as-black-culture/
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“What would America be like if we loved black people as much as black culture?” (Original Post)
demmiblue
Apr 2015
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KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)1. She is totally correct.
Very knowledgeable young lady.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)2. k&r
I got to see her talk on a panel a couple of months ago. Sharp young woman!
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)3. Indeed she is.
Only sixteen... gives me hope for the future!