CCT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bell Hooks, White Supremacy, Cultural Appropriation
28 Mar 2019
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Cct200 lecture 6: eating the other and digital blackface (02-13-19) Eating the other: desire and resistance bell hooks. Other approaches to race: yosso asks how we can shift deficit model approaches to low-income communities/poc to recognize and account for community cultural capital , tuck asks to shift from damage-centered to desire-centered approaches to. Indigenous (and urban or low-income, black, immigrant and/or poc: hooks asks us to critically examine how and why people of colour (especially black people) are consumed by dominant culture (especially white people) White supremacist fantasy and commodification of otherness: commodification of otherness successful because offered as new delight more intense and satisfying than norm. Beyonce previously viewed as easy entry into black culture for black people targeted mainstream white audience: then her album lemonade promoted mainstream elements of black culture-- #blacklivesmatter, etc: showed that not all content that black artists create is intended to be accessible to white culture.
