https://contemporaryracism.org/2611/cultural-appropriation-or-racism/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Mon, 19 May 2014 20:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/2611/cultural-appropriation-or-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Thu, 01 May 2014 06:49:14 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=2611#comment-406 I think that at its core, cultural appropriation is picking out specific parts of a nonwhite, minority culture and adapting them to fit into the dominant, white culture. And I think this is often done because Black culture has a lot of cultural capital that is absent in White culture. Therefore, White culture is just finding another way in which to oppress and diminish a culture that White have historically (and consequentially, continue to do so today) pushed down. The amount of power given to White culture here is so problematic on so many levels, but I think it also most importantly qualifies cultural appropriation as racist.

]]> https://contemporaryracism.org/2611/cultural-appropriation-or-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:27:41 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=2611#comment-325 I wouldn’t say that cultural appropriation is racism, if done well. When you take another culture and use it for yourself with no acknowledgment of where it came from, or you spin it in a way that belittles it origins there is a problem. I don’t find anything wrong with using parts of another culture. I believe that things that have been adopted cross culture can be a good thing as long as we never forget the origin. However the way that cultural appropriation has been done most often it is cause for concern.

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