Cultural Appropriation and Fashion: A Digital Literature Review
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Required Reading
Ahmed, Osman. “Why Fashion Needs Cultural Appropriation.” The Business of Fashion, The
Business of Fashion, 1 June 2017, https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/news-analysis/why-fashion-needs-cultural-appropriation/.
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Bains, Devinder. “Vogue.me Investigates: Cultural Appropriation in the Fashion Industry.”
Vogue Arabia, Nervora Fashion, Inc. and Condé Nast International. , 17 Oct. 2019, https://en.vogue.me/fashion/cultural-appropriation-fashion-industry/.
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Dodgson, Lindsay. “People of Color Explain the Difference between Cultural Appropriation and
Appreciation.” Insider, Insider Inc., 5 Sept. 2020, https://www.insider.com/difference-between-cultural-appropriation-and-appreciation-2020-9.
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Lenard, Patti Tamara, and Peter Balint. “What Is (the Wrong of) Cultural Appropriation?”
Ethnicities, vol. 20, no. 2, Apr. 2020, pp. 331–52. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796819866498. ***
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Maiorescu-Murphy, Roxana D. “‘We Are the Land:" an Analysis of Cultural Appropriation and
Moral Outrage in Response to Christian Dior's Sauvage Scandal.” Public Relations Review, vol. 47, no. 4, 2021. ***
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Matthes, Erich Hatala. “Cultural Appropriation Without Cultural Essentialism?” Social Theory
and Practice, vol. 42, no. 2, Florida State University Department of Philosophy, 2016, pp. 343–66, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24871347. ***
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Pham, Minh-Ha T. “Racial Plagiarism and Fashion.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking,
vol. 4, no. 3, Michigan State University Press, 2017, pp. 67–80, https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.4.3.0067. ***
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Socha, Miles. “Consumers Lag in Adopting Non-Western Labels, Survey Suggests: Fashion
Designers Aren’t the Only Ones Who Fear Being Called out for Cultural Appropriation: Some Consumers May Be Shunning Clothes from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Brands for the Same Reason.” WWD: Women’s Wear Daily, Nov. 2020, p. 16. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=146864173&site=ehost-live. ***
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Summers, Brandi Thompson. “‘Haute [Ghetto] Mess’: Postracial Aesthetics and the Seduction of
Blackness in High Fashion.” Racism Postrace, edited by Roopali Mukherjee et al., Duke University Press, 2019, pp. 245–63, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv125jhp5.17. ***
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Vézina, Brigitte. “Curbing Cultural Appropriation in the Fashion Industry.” Centre for
International Governance Innovation, Centre for International Governance Innovation, 3 Apr. 2019, https://www.cigionline.org/publications/curbing-cultural-appropriation-fashion-industry/. ***
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Wang, Connie. “Finding the Beauty in Cultural Appropriation.” The New York Times, The New
York Times, 20 Apr. 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/cultural-appropriation-coachella.html.
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Wang, Connie. "Why Japanese Women Are Dressing Like Cholas." Youtube, uploaded by Refinery29, 16 Mar. 2019,
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=u1LqF03UUdc
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