Summary: Cultural Appropriation Of Black Culture

One of the most popular and overlooked media sources that cultural appropriation has been a dominant topic is the music industry. Last year Billboard reported that music stars were appropriating Black culture into their performances and music videos. Hunger games star Amandla Stenberg called out several white celebrities and icons in a video titled “Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows” (Billboard). She states that “In 2013, Miley Cyrus twerks and uses black women as props, and then in 2014, in her video called ‘This is How We Do,’ Katy Perry use Ebonics and hand gestures and eats watermelons while wearing cornrows before cutting inexplicably to a picture of Aretha Franklin” (Stenberg). To begin, the fact that Twerking came from New Orleans, Louisiana