(subtitle: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era)

I looked for this after reading The Black Dancing Body, since I do lindy and wanted to know more about the history of lindy hop, particularly how cultural appropriation, cultural theft and racial politics play into it ( Read more... )

Description: The panel on cultural appropriation at WisCon last year raised issues that were hotly discussed online, and the panel that this forum follows is likely to do the same. This open forum is meant to give you the chance to explore these issues and how they matter to you. Through passionate discussion we can improve our awareness and find ( Read more... )

Typing this one up first, since I suspect it's the one people are most eager to read about.

Description: As part of an ongoing discussion of the issue of cultural appropriation, this year's panel will address what is perhaps the most controversial, and certainly the most discussed, aspect of cultural appropriation in fiction: the use or ( Read more... )

This felt very different from my first Wiscon, and a lot of it was because of the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM from last year ( Read more... )

I realized that my 2006 in review post didn't really mention the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM or International Blog Against Racism Week even as I was writing it. I wasn't sure how to put them into the meme -- how can I claim finally reading up on racism and race as an accomplishment ( Read more... )

Or, in which I make myself extremely unpopular and get flamed through the roof ( Read more... )

Moderator: Nisi Shawl
Panelists: Yoon Ha Lee, Gregory Frost, Judith E. Berman, Ekaterina Sedia, Theresa Carter

Ahhh, cultural appropriation, a topic near and dear to my heart.

Alas, the panel left me wanting to spork something, to co-opt yhlee's words ( Read more... )

As a sort of addendum to the cultural appropriation post, there are some interesting at Salon. Gwenihana and then letters agreeing and disagreeing with the article (you have to watch a little ad to get in).

Read up a little bit on the invention of the Korean alphabet, thanks to yhlee, and it is so incredibly cool! The chapter was going on about how ( Read more... )

Because I am feeling Victorian (haha! I appropriate you, O imperialist culture of the past!):
In which I type a heck of a lot on cultural appropriation, cultural authenticity, imperialism, anime, manga, fandom, East Asian Studies, and Taiwan, with the gratuitous use of parenthetical interjections and multiple tangents and wish that I could have ( Read more... )