Cultural Appropriation and Racial Stereotyping: Home

• "Overly simplified conceptions, images, or beliefs about individuals and specific social groups. Popular stereotypes rely on assumptions, are often mistaken for reality, and usually have negative connotations" read more (Silverman & Silverman, 2012).
• "Ethnic and racial stereotypes are simplistic, often negative, generalizations ascribed to ethnic/racial/national groups and members based on perceived cultural deficiencies and characteristics" read more (Nguyen-Perez, 2014).

White Privilege

• "White privilege refers to the unearned advantages afforded to people who are assumed, based largely on complexion and related physical features, to be of European ancestry" see more (Smith, Crosthwaite,  & Clark,  2014).
• "White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies" by Peggy McIntosh.

Blackface (also Ministrelsy)

• "This is why blackface is offensive" by Harmeet Kaur (CNN)

• "By distorting the features and culture of African Americans—including their looks, language, dance, deportment, and character—white Americans were able to codify whiteness across class and geopolitical lines as its antithesis" (National Museum of African American History & Culture, n.d.)

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