Topic: Cultural Appropriation

Multiple exposures of a man moving or dancing

History of dances pilfered for profit

Jill Vasbinder - The Conversation
Illustration

I was accused of cultural appropriation

Jennifer Givhan
Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson claims tacos are American

Martin Cizmar - Raw Story
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A year of insensitive ads

Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez - Alternet
Nepal Everest

Silicon Valley's Orientalism

Anni Irish
Moonlight

Jay-Z's black "Friends" remake

Alessandra Maldonado
despacito, luis fonsi

Bieber's racial tourism

Alessandra Maldonado
Rob Schneider

Respect the paella

Mireia Triguero Roura
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Disney princess on a mission

Alli Joseph
Image for Stuff white people like: Yoga, tacos and pretending the white supremacy that fuels cultural appropriation doesn't exist

Stuff white people like

Silpa Kovvali
Taylor Swift; Beyoncé; Justin Bieber

Joys of Cultural Appropriation

Neal Pollack
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Imagination vs. appropriation

Svetlana Mintcheva
The Struggle Is Real

The "struggle" is not real

Brook Bolen
Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall didn't "destroy" me

David Masciotra
Image for “Have They Run out of White Poets Yet?”: Asian and Asian-American writers mock Calvin Trillin's New Yorker poem on Chinese food

Writers mock New Yorker poem

Paula Young Lee
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What we don't know about yoga

Andrea Jain, Michelle Goldberg - Religion Dispatches
Image for Coldplay’s eat-pray-love India: Their Beyoncé collaboration is even more insidious than cultural appropriation — and it's not the band's first time

Coldplay’s eat-pray-love India

Paula Young Lee
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The politics of "Anaconda"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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