Cultural Appropriation

Authors

Project Team, Sheridan College

Files

Streaming Media

Description

In this section, we examine the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation by sharing many examples, including hairstyles, Halloween costumes, Blackface, sports team jerseys and names, and perhaps the most controversial, trying to appear or claiming to be racialized when you’re white.

Publication Date

2021

Keywords

cultural appropriation, blackface, fashion, sports teams, transracial, N-word, music, rap, hip-hop, jerseys, halloween costumes, hairstyles, cultural appreciation, clothing, gucci, katy perry, prada, politicians, dreadlocks, cornrows, dream catchers, Inuk throat singing, Native headdress, darker, lighter, tan.

Comments

The Blurred Lines of Racism website

Web resources

Cultural Appropriation

Faculty

Faculty of Animation, Arts & Design (FAAD)

Terms of Use

Terms of Use for Works posted in SOURCE.

Copyright

© The Blurred Lines of Racism Team

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

SOURCE Citation

Team, Project, "Cultural Appropriation" (2021). Project. 4.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/blurred_lines_of_racism_project/4

Original Citation

The Blurred Lines of Racism Project Team. (2021). The Blurred Lines of Racism: Cultural Appropriation [JOUR 20082: Project]. Sheridan College.