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Conclusion

References

So what? Why does this all matter?

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  • Clifton, D. (2014, December 14). Love her or hate her, Iggy Azalea made race the biggest Issue of music in 2014. Retrieved from http://mic.com/articles/106174/how-iggy-azalea-made-race-the-biggest-issue-of-music-in-2014
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Monopoly

You Decide

Imbalance

A monopoly of white artists who use people of color as props.

Where would the world be if it loved black people as much as it loves black culture?

A clear perception of what is good and bad. What is cool and what is "ghetto."

Amandla Stenberg

Historically

Cultural Appropriation

vs

When a majority group takes something from a minority group and makes it "cool."

Harlem Renaissance

Pat Boone Album Cover 1955

Cultural Exchange

"I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong." Zora Neale Hurston

The problem with this definition is that it is too simple.

Harlem Renaissance

Little Richard Album Cover 1955

_____________

Beginning in the 1920s

Cultural exchange is partaking in another culture with “mutual understanding, equality, and respect.” It is an exchange between the “dominant institutions and the minority groups” (Pincus, 1996).

Minority Group

"[Jazz is] the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul"(Hughes, 1994, pp. 55).

The group that lacks power not members (Pincus, 1996).

"Tutti Frutti"

Years of study under white teachers, a lifetime of white books, pictures, and papers...made her dislike... jazz and all its manifestations. She doesn't care for... portraits of Negroes because they are "too Negro."...But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist... to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," ... to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro--and beautiful"? (Hughes, 1994, pp. 55).

Dominant Institution

Not cultural excange

Pat Boone’s “Tutti Frutti” sold more records than Little Richard's original (Clifton, 2014).

The group with most power in society (Pincus, 1996).

Indian-American wearing a suit.

Assimilation

According to Billboard Chart (1956) Pat Boone's Tutti Frutti had fallen to the #83 spot on the pop charts but Little Richard's was no where to be found.

American society demands a certain level of assimilation. Minority groups who are marginalized are unable to maintain an identity that is solely theirs.

Zendeya

Zendeya wearing "locs" at the Academy Awards

Giuliana Rancic

Fashion Police host Giuliana Rancic was quoted as saying that she felt Zendaya’s hair must smell like “patchouli oil… or maybe weed.”

Kylie Jenner

For her 2015 ‘Teen Vogue’ shoot Jenner donned a military-inspired outfits with “her own chic and trendy twist,” dreadlocks (Monae, 2015) when white Jenner donned the same hairstyle as Zendaya they were “chic and trendy” because she was white.

Iggy Azalea

Iggy Azalea morphs her image to seem "blacker" (Clifton, 2014).

White Privilege

AAVE

Speaking AAVE decreases perceived competence, intelligence, education level, and qualification (Billings, 2005).

Iggy can don the accent like a costume and remove it like a costume. She can reap the rewards without the negatives.

Pick and choose what aspects of African-American Identity you want

Hip Hop

An artistic socio-politcal movement of music that stemmed from jazz and blues of the Harlem Renaissance. Originated in the ghettos of New York in the 1970s. (QTip, 2014)

Artists

  • Nicki Minaj
  • Azalea Banks
  • Kendrick Lamar

The "new face” of hip-hop

  • Iggy Azalea
  • Macklemore

African-American Identity

Protective Styling

AAVE

African-American Vernacular English(AAVE) includes different sounds and syntax.(Thomas, 2007).

Hair styles that help grow African-American hair and to keep it healthy (Blalark, 2014).

Protective Styling

AAVE

  • Braids
  • Dreadlocks "locs"
  • Twists
  • Cornrows
  • Weaves
  • Do-rags
  • the invariant be
  • copula deletion (word used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate)
  • third-person singular -s absence
  • ain’t in place of didn’t

(Blalark, 2014).

Zendeya wearing dreadlocks at the Academy Awards

  • We be cold all the time
  • We cold right now
  • He think he look cool
  • He ain’t do it

(Thomas, 2007)

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion

Methods

Objective

Thesis

Most of the information gathered for the presentation was through research. The online school database served as the secondary source for most of the information presented. Primarily a lot of social media websites helped formulate a greater understanding of the topic at hand.

Seldom is African-American music and dance regarded with esteem in mainstream media when African-American artists perform. However, when white artists take up what is typically African-American dance or music as their style it is considered “trendy" when before it would be ridiculed as “ghetto” (Monae, 2015).

The purpose of the presentation is asking you to educate yourself and to be open about reevaluating how you express yourself. Secondly to consider the cultures you engage with without fully understanding, and the sociopolitical impact this has on minoritiy groups.

Cultural Appropriation and the African-American Identity

by Rodrigo Sanchez

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