Whiteness in Crisis: From Thomas Jefferson to Pop Culture
In The Thick
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šļø 3 January 2020
ā±ļø 32 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined byĀ LaurenĀ MicheleĀ Jackson, a professor at Northwestern University and author of the new book,Ā White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation. They discuss the capitalization of black culture in pop culture, the rebranding of black aesthetics in white women, and the power of hashtag activism.Ā
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- Laurenās piece in TheĀ New YorkerĀ about a white manās creation of virtual supermodel Shudu Gram
- The UndefeatedāsĀ piece on Black rappers appropriating country music
- LaurenĀ MicheleĀ JacksonĀ wants to change how we talk about appropriation, viaĀ The Nation
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| 0:24.0 | Hey what's up, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Maria Nohosa. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm Jugalobarela. |
| 0:37.0 | And joining us from my favorite city. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:40.0 | The city where I grew up, Chicago. |
| 0:43.0 | Lauren Michelle Jackson, she's a professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. |
| 0:51.0 | She's also the author of the new book White Negroes when |
| 0:55.7 | Corn Rose were in vogue and other thoughts on cultural appropriation. Hey Lauren |
| 1:00.7 | welcome to the show. Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 1:04.1 | So your book basically looks at the appropriation |
| 1:07.6 | of black culture through the lens of pop culture |
| 1:11.3 | and through history, and well essentially you look at how white people |
| 1:16.4 | always profit off of anything black which is like pretty intense right but you lay out this argument basically from language to pop pretty much everything |
| 1:27.0 | everything of the title of your book is modeled after the white journalist and author |
| 1:32.0 | Norman Mailer who in 1957 wrote an essay |
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