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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Cultural appropriation"”.
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Media Effects: Cultural Appropriation And Attitudes Towards Cosmetic Surgery
… media's influence on Caucasian women to culturally appropriate the physical features generally ascribed to African American women through non-surgical and or surgical cosmetic procedures and vice versa. Participants were 26 African American women and 54 Caucasian women who had previously …
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Of symposiarchs and doorkeepers: theorizing cultural appropriation and authenticity
… related to the politics of representation, cultural appropriation (the depiction of the members of one socially defined group by the members of another), interpretation and authenticity with a focus upon the example provided by the public controversy that surrounded Toronto’s Royal Ontario …
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An analysis of cultural appropriation in fashion and popular media.
… expression and a reflection of personal and cultural identity. Fashion designers increasingly use cultural artifacts as inspiration for clothing. Previous media studies looked at cultural appropriation and found its place in fashion through traditional media outlets such as television and …
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Cultural Appropriation: The Continued Phenomena Of American Indian High School Mascots
… school culture, views of American Indians, and cultural appropriation. Critical race theory offered a positional framework to contextualize the phenomena as experienced by each participant. Understanding the influence of an American Indian mascot has on administration is important because it …
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The Process of Cultural Appropriation in Literature and How It Can Be Changed
<p>This paper explores the ways cultural appropriation has existed in literature from the time of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" to the present, with the publication of Jeanine Cummins's novel <em>American Dirt</em>. After dissecting the motives behind the exploitation of traumatic events and …
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Sampling India: examining cultural appropriation, intercultural exchange, and the Othering of Indian music in hip-hop and reggaeton
… in hip-hop and reggaeton, with a key focus on cultural appropriation discourse and Orientalism in a globalised age. These genres make for an ideal study not only due to a proclivity for sampling and interpolations (the reuse of portions of existing musical works), but also the increased …
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Power of the Southern melting pot: analysis of Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus as Southern folklore and cultural appropriation
… Based on James O. Young’s definitions of appropriation, I establish Harris’s work as evidence of cultural content appropriation of European, African, and Native American folklore. Harris specifically appropriates European and African folklore to further his own Post-Civil War psyche, …
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The Fallacy of Cultural Authenticity: The Simulacra and Cultural Appropriation in the Free Market through the Lens of Literature
<p>I. The Individual’s Pursuit of Cultural Authenticity: Music and Materialism in E.L. Doctorow’s <em>Ragtime</em> and Nella Larsen’s <em>Quicksand</em></p> <p>II. ‘Buying’ Into Culture: The Effect of Commoditization on the Cultural Artifact in Willa Cather’s <em>The Professor’s House</em></p> …
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“Going native”: a case study of cultural appropriation in a settler society, with particular reference to the activities of Johannes Andersen in New Zealand during the first half of the twentieth century
… mode of ‘indigenization’ in settler societies is cultural appropriation. This involves the utilisation of elements of the culture of the indigenous peoples by incorporating these elements in the signifying systems of the settler society, without the authorisation of the indigenes. The present …
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Communal Appropriation: Considerations of Heritage and Cultural Preservation
<p>While cultural appropriation is widely taken as a negative phenomenon that should be avoided, aspects of cultural appropriation are desirable for cultural preservation and heritage. These aspects can expand upon a museum's function by fostering an authentic connection to the community that would …
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Cross-cultural relationships : the work of Canadian artist Mildred Valley Thornton
… and provides an opportunity to explore issues of cultural appropriation as well as the complexity of human relations.
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Getting to Know Rodgers and Hammerstein: Education and Adaptation in 21st-century performance
… misogynistic gender stereotypes, overt cultural appropriation, and questionable representations of slavery and domestic violence. While a 21st-century audience may be attuned to these unsavory elements, a dramaturgical perspective produces a deeper understanding. Through various …
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A Mask Made of Metonyms: Racialized Masquerade
My contribution to the charged discourse of cultural appropriation seeks to contextualize its utilization in popular performances so casual in their production and consumption that they are often overlooked. In fact, their deceptively benign playfulness is what makes them remarkably effective in …
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China’s popular TV dramas & their role in the party’s political communication since 2001
… its media to appropriate traditional Chinese cultural values for political purposes. It focuses on the TV dramas that have won the top Feitian Awards (China’s top official TV drama awards) from 2002 to 2011, a total of 35 TV dramas. Drawing on the insights offered by framing theory and …
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BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW: GERMAN-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL CANNIBALISM
Cultural cannibalism is an aesthetic practice and an analytical tool that can be used to look closely at (trans)cultural encounters that happen in the arts. From its modernist roots, the term inherited a bold spirit, a playful self-assertion in the face of the other, a refusal to submit to the …
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Rhetorical Imperialism
… as a source of strength. Here, the novel’s appropriation of the folklore works to subversively challenge imperial and global power structures through the native’s own narrative. The second proposes an understanding of the novel’s cultural appropriation as an exploitative commodification of …
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Biophilic design: Creating biophilic healing spaces
… architecture was explored, which is the cultural dimension. Culture and Biophilia are closely linked, yet this perspective has never been explored in biophilic design. For this, the local culture specific to New Zealand was considered and cultural expert Ron Bull was contacted to …
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Artist-educators’ experiences with identity and representation in theatre arts learning spaces
… issues of bias, identity, representation, and cultural appropriation within their learning spaces or to facilitate the necessary discourse to contextualize these provocative issues. The goals of this research focus on understanding artist–educators’ current experiences in theatre learning …
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Handcrafting a national industry : the production and patronage of Alexander Morton & Company's Donegal carpets
… of three aspects of Bourdieu's theory: habitus, cultural codes, and symbolic capital. Archival material, press accounts and historical writing reveal several issues involved in this enterprise,' such as ethnicity, gender, class and cultural appropriation, These issues are addressed in an …
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Gray Matters: Aging in the Age of #grannyhair
Drawing on previous literature in cultural gerontology, ageism and age relations, and cultural appropriation this study analyzes the recent grannyhair trend on instagram. Recently, younger women have been coloring their hair combinations of white, silver, and gray and posting images of their style …
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