Tag: appropriation

23 MAR

‘Isle of Dogs’ critics slam the movie for ‘ugly’ cultural appropriation and whitewashing

Fox Searchlight Pictures Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs” is being praised by many film critics. But others — even those who enjoyed it — are pointing out the culture appropriation. The movie takes place in a dystopian Japanese city.  The heroes of the movie are almost all voiced by white actors, though. Critics are pointing […]

16 MAY

Fashion victims: 5 times clothing giants profited from cultural appropriation

Published time: 16 May, 2017 23:02 French fashion house Chanel has come under fire on social media for producing a $ 2,000 boomerang that critics say appropriates Indigenous Australian culture, but they’re not the first. Following US make-up artist Jeffree Star’s Instagram post about how much fun was being had with the new boomerang, the […]

19 APR

‘Black-ish’ Creator Kenya Barris Joins Moshe Kasher for an Insightful Discussion of Cultural Appropriation

As a hip-hop-obsessed Jewish kid growing up in Oakland in the 1980s and ’90s, Moshe Kasher knows a little something about cultural appropriation, which was the topic of last night’s debut episode of his new Comedy Central talk show, Problematic with Moshe Kasher. Like A&E’s Black and White, on which hosts Sherrod Small and Christian Finnegan conducted awkward, necessary, […]