Basic Knowledge
A sincere effort to learn about and understand another culture.
What is Cultural Appreciation?
A hairstyle used to maintain Black hair, but has been misused to draw attention.
What are Braids?
What are Cornrows?
All Black music originates from this type of music.
What are Slave Songs?
Disney's most controversial movie.
What is "Song of the South"?
Implicit Bias, ethnocentrism, and generalizations all fall under this category.
What is Stereotypes?
The unpermitted and often improper use of another culture’s traditions and expressions.
What is Cultural Appropriation?
When a person darkens their skin to represent another ethnicity.
What is Blackface?
Forbes Magazine had a headline titled "Hip Hop’s Unlikely New Star: A White, Blonde, Australian Woman" refering the singer of "Fancy". Who is she?
Who is Iggy Azaela?
2 designer brands released items that resembled Blackface: name one of them.
What is Gucci?
What is Prada?
When companies take advantage of using black culture for money, yet give little and nothing in return to its creators.
What is Exploitation?
The use of one’s personal culture as a basis to judge other cultures, people, and practices, often negatively, as if they are superior. Or simply favoring one's own culture over another.
What is Ethnocentrism?
Stereotypical Jewelry in Black Culture?
What are Gold Chains?
What Are Hoop Earrings?
This nonblack popstar released a video to that took place in ghetto NYC surrounded by stereotypical black people. She features Black artist Lil' Kim got a small part, but that is only to allow this artist to further her delve deeper into black culture. Who sang "Can't Hold Us Down"?
Who is Christina Aguilera?
This cosmetic brand fired a trans, black model for speaking out against racism when a white supremacist drove into a group of anti-racism protestors.
What is L'Oreal?
It is hard to avoid appropriation because it is part of industry and society. Name which kind of racism this is.
What is Systemic Racism?
The cushion that allows non-black people "to consciously draw on fragments of Black culture"(Rachel McKenzie) without suffering the oppression and injustices that Black people do.
What is White Privilege?
The many body alterations that Kim Kardashian had to like like "hip hop video baddies"(White Negroes 39).
What are Cosmetic Surgeries?
Jennifer Lopez released an album that had "Ain't It Funny" and "I'm Real" that were bought co-written and voice shadowing by an unsigned artist. Name the featured artist?
Who is Ashanti?
Governor Ralph Northam was featured in a highschool yearbook picture of Blackface and a person in a KKK outfit. Name the state that he governed.
What is Virginia?
The difference between learning about another culture and abusing its properties.
(Hint: ___ vs. ___)
What is Cultural Appreciation vs. Cultural Appropriation?
This is probably the main reason why a person consciously participates in cultural appropriation but does nothing about it.
What is Power?
This make-up brand has gone viral for the lack of fondation shades that are inclusive to darker skin tones and creating a shade so dark that people relate it to a minstrel show color.
What is Youthforia?
"Scottish DJ, singer, and producer born Adam Richard Wiles"(White Negroes 23) picked a stage name that he thought sounded "racially ambiguous"(his words). Name his stage name.
Who is Calvin Harris?
This white chef became famous for her southern-style recipes. In 2012, she was sued by a manager at her restaurant for discriminating against black employees and making them use a separate bathroom. She denied these allegations, but admitted to hoping for her brother to have an antebellum or postbellum plantion style wedding and to using the N-word. Name that Chef.
Who is Paula Deen?
When privileged people "borrow" from minority cultures because they know that they will face little consequence, as they are the "superior" people,
Also the theme of this game.
What is the Relationship Between Ethnocentrism and Cultural Appropriation?