White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation Audiobook (Free)

Exposes the brand new generation of whiteness thriving in the expense and borrowed ingenuity of dark people-and explores how this intensifies racial inequality.

American culture loves blackness. From music and fashion to activism and language, black culture continuously achieves worldwide impact. Yet, with regards to who is permitted to thrive from black hipness, the pioneers are often left behind as black aesthetics are changed into mainstream success-and white income.

Weaving together about White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation narrative, scholarship, and critique, Lauren Michele Jackson reveals why ethnic appropriation-something that’s become inlayed inside our daily lives-deserves critical attention. It really is a blueprint for taking prosperity and power, and ultimately exacerbates the financial, political, and sociable inequity that persists in the us. She unravels the racial contradictions lurking behind American tradition as we know it-from shapeshifting superstars and memes eliminated viral to brazen poets, loveable potheads, and faulty political leaders.

An audacious debut, White colored Negroes brilliantly summons a re-interrogation of Norman Mailer’s infamous 1957 article of a similar name. It also introduces a vibrant new voice in Jackson. Piercing, interested, and bursting with pop cultural touchstones, White colored Negroes is a dispatch in awe of dark creativity everywhere and an immediate demand our thoughtful intake.