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0:00 Awkafina did nothing wrong
3:30 What is cultural appropriation?
5:30 A bunch of examples
11:20 More interesting cases
12:45 Elvis
17:36 Cultural Appreciation
18:14 The Takeaway
19:52 How to not appropriate
20:43 One final story

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Blackface: A cultural history of a racist art form
youtube.com/watch?v=pqlD-eZm1ck
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows
youtube.com/watch?v=M3K9uKIMob0
A Brief History of The Minstrel Show
youtube.com/watch?v=6ptQYcWyRL0
The long, sordid history of Blackface
youtube.com/watch?v=Qg9hxGYCwxM
We need to talk about cultural appropriation:
theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/15/we-need-to-talk-about-cultural-appropriation-why-lionel-shrivers-speech-touched-a-nerve
All Shook Up: The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
dissentmagazine.org/article/all-shook-up-the-politics-of-cultural-appropriation
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